We left the volunteer house at 5am to catch our '10 hour' bus to Dar es Salaam, so naturally, 20 hours later, we arrived. Only a short overnight stop, before our early morning very bumpy ferry ride to Zanzibar- that foreign place with the paradise beaches. Although it is very touristy, with the familiar race of doing this, seeing that, going there and taking photos of it, it certainly provides everything it's glossy brochures promise. And it charges for it. We ...

Tanzania: the country voted favourite in East Africa by the travellers we've surveyed, because "it feels safer and Swahili is an easy language." It is also home of Forever Angels Baby Home, the place where mum worked for 3 months 3 years ago, and that was our first stop in Tanzania. Forever Angels was started by an amazing lady called Amy, who has managed to create a beautiful home for about fifty 0-5 year olds. Some have a difficult family, others no family, ot...

Rwanda, the 'land of a thousand hills', is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and almost all of the land is cultivated (except National Parks), resulting in a lot of terracing. It is amazing to see the patchwork hills that stretch on forever, completely untouched by litter. Plastic bags are not allowed and for 3 hours a month, on Umuganda Day, every Rwandan citizen works in the community, cleaning streets, repairing roads and building schools....

Our last few days in Uganda were spent relaxing at the beautiful Lake Bunyonyi- 'the place of many little birds.' There, we walked through the local villages, visited the most wonderful grandma on top of a hill, with her pot-bellied grandchildren, dirty and grimey, who hit their pig out of boredom. A place that is so rich in beauty, fresh water and fertile ground, is home to people of such poverty. One girl we met wasn't at school because her grandmother was at t...

Hello! And greetings from beautful Uganda! =) Electricity in Uganda is a luxury. It isn't unusual to go two days without and it doesn't tend to stick around longer than 2 hours on good days. Therefore my blog entries are a little elusive and eratic in appearance. I love Uganda. It has the source of the Nile, lakes, mountains and national parks. It is diverse and fertile and the climate is less extreme than it's neighbours. Unlike Nairobi, Kampala is full of col...