Hi guys,

Really sorry about the lack of contact, I realised its been 6 weeks and four countries since I last updated you! I'll try and do as many blogs as possible today (before I get bored), so grab a cup of tea and hopefully this will help you get over your hangovers!

So I last left you in Addis in Ethiopia. From Addis, we had another stint of bush camping, this time through to Kenya. For two long days, we had really rubbish bumpy roads, bad enough that the sports bra had to make an appearance - I wasn't prepared on the first day, so spent most of the day holding my bust! The long drive days were interesting - on the one day, we were driving happily along the main road (though a guy did pretend to throw a spear at my head when I waved to him...I thought he was serious and ducked, but apparently he started laughing, didn't fancy taking the risk though!), until a police convoy told us the road was too dangerous to drive along as the tribes were hostile, so we had to turn back and camp at their Police compound. And on another day we were driving along and got diverted onto a hilly dirt road due to student riots, but apart from all that, these days weren't actually that bad. The most exciting thing about these days (apart from finally hitting a tarmac road), was that I've found someone else on the truck who loves singing and dancing to 90s cheese (especially the raps) as much as me. We serenaded the whole truck and brought out our best dance moves - an amazing way to break up an eight hour drive!

When we finally finished driving, we arrived in Nakuru and found an amazing supermarket (well, just a supermarket but it sold normal items, so we got extremely excited as its been a while). We also went on our first safari in Lake Nukuru National Park and saw most of the big 5 and other animals - it was really cool to see the animals, but it did feel a bit like a safari park at home, as it was relatively small (well, compared to the Serengeti) and it had an organised road system. I enjoyed the introduction though.

From Nakuru we crossed over into Uganda and went straight to Jinga. Our biggest claim to fame here was our new found status of flip cup world champions of the world (well we only played one truck, but no-one else was there, so you can only beat what's in front of you!). We also went mountain biking though the local villages - we were planning on a civilised, chilled bike ride which we had at first, but then we had a rain shower, which meant that all the roads turned super muddy and our bikes actually clogged up with mud, so we couldn't ride or even walk (as our flip flops got so muddy, they were actually too heavy to walk with!). After some help from the local kids, we managed to finally make it back, but it was probably the most exhausting bike ride ever!!

From Jinga, we travelled to Kabale and stopped off for the obligatory photos at the equator, before moving onto our brief foray into Rwanda...think its time for a new blog!