On average, a Ugandan gets bitten by a mosquito 1629 per year, the highest statistic in Africa. The average person get Malaria 5 times a year: the more impoverished are more susceptible and young people in school can get Malaria every few weeks. It costs about $16 to get a blood sample taken and tested at a clinic, get medication and painkillers and go home, i.e. the cheapest and most common way to treat it. There are 30 million people living in Uganda spending...

We headed out from Nairobi earlyish in the morning - around 8:30 - which is good for the Jolly's. We are always optimistic about what time we will leave - but almost always leave after 9 no matter how hard we try! On the way towards the border, we took a small detour to try and see some of lake Naivasha - this turned out to be fruitless as we didn't really get a good view of it and we drove for a very long time keep thinking it would be just around the corner! A...

The road to Nairobi was long but we managed to make it in a day. We reached the ascent up the side of the Great Rift Valley in the dark and had to drive carefully as the trucks and busses overtake whether you are there or not and just push you off the road, in this case down the side of the escarpment! It was another one of those scary last few kms into a city in the dark we shouldn't be doing! But we had decided to drive the long road as there wasn't anywhere ...

The next morning after breakfast we headed for the Serengeti gate as we needed to be out by 13:00 to avoid paying for another 24hours. We made it easily and continued to drive through the Serengeti hoping to see the migration. Ant spoke to a number of drivers at the gate who indicated where we should go and we found the migrants which was wonderful to see! Everywhere you looked there were Wildebeest with their babies running in a general direction, there are ov...

Ngorogoro/Serengeti is a very expensive experience! Although we would never regret it, you have to plan things very carefully otherwise you end up paying so much more than what you had imagined! We got to the lodge at about 2:30. The most luxurious lodge we have ever seen - with a beautiful bath!!! Joey bathed about 3 times a day just because she could! The lodge is positioned on the edge of the crater with an amazing view of the lake shimmering with strange colo...