WEEK FOUR  Week four started with a trip back to Arusha after the game drive through the crater. We were still in our groups in the 4WDs and as we were heading back to our camp, our 4WD was in a small car accident - a car literally just pulled out in front of us. We all counted our lucky stars that our truck only lost a bit of paint, because it could have easily been so much worse.  We got back to our campsite around 330 which was great as it gave us enough t...

WEEK THREE  Another busy, fun filled week. We crossed the north-south equator again on our way towards Jinja in Uganda. This time we got a demonstration of the apparent differences between the two - the first test was the water test. They had set up three sinks; one in the southern hemisphere, one right on the border line and one in the northern hemisphere. When water was pored down the sinks, it spun in opposite directions, while the water in the sink on the b...

WEEK TWO  We were camping in Kasese for two nights. Day eight we spent at Queen Elizabeth National Park in search of game. It was just our luck that it was raining, which meant some of the animals we're in hiding. We saw plenty of kob, water buffaloes, vultures, water birds, impalas, warthogs and monkeys. But these were not what we had come to see! After about 2and half hours or searching through the ridiculously bumpy, muddy roads, we finally found a family of...

Apologies for the delay in my first post - we have been on the road and wifi is hard to come by in many of the remote places we've been! Week one -  Firstly - what an absolutely amazing country! The people are beautiful, the landscape is breathtaking and the wild life is incredible!  I arrived in Nairobi, kenya in the afternoon of the 30th after 24 hours traveling. Although I had had some sleep, I was still feeling delirious coming out of security. I had pre...