We only had one day in Nairobi and wanted to make the most of it so booked an early flight from Uganda (very early!) and arranged a tour guide to take us to all the sites. We were picked up from the airport at 9am by our tour guide and after a quick pit stop at our hostel we were on our way to the centre of Nairobi on a magical mystery tour (mostly because I'd booked the tour through our hostel and had no idea what was on the agenda!). First stop was the Natio...

Uganda was another highlight of our trip as we were there to trek Gorillas. To keep the cost down we had booked a non direct flight to Entebee, so although our first flight was at 8.30am we arrived at 4pm and were met by the airport transfer we had arranged to take us to Kampala. Looking out the windows of the car, the first thing that struck me was wow this is really Africa! It was totally different to South Africa, the roads were generally not tarred and the p...

We woke up early, very excited about the next 5 days in Kruger, and got a shuttle to the airport where we picked up the car. It was a long 400 km drive from Johannesburg to Kruger park so we arrived at 4pm and checked in at Numbi gate. Once through the gate we had a 20 minute little game drive, full of expectations, to get to our accommodation at Pretoriuskop camp site. Unfortunately we didn't see anything on the way and started to wonder if we'd be the only pe...

The bus dropped us off in Durban about 10pm, by which time we were pretty shattered, and we checked into the happy hippo hostel, which although had been recommended to us by a few people, looked pretty crap and in the middle of nowhere. The facilities were OK but it was like a big warehouse that had been converted into a hostel so it wasn't very cozy and had no atmosphere at all. We upgraded to a double room from the dorm we had booked so at least we had some pr...

We got picked up from Port Elizabeth early and after a morning on the bus, with bus driver handing out free food to various people from the townships along the way which was quite sweet, we arrived at Cintsa. Cinsta was a tiny little town which was basically made up of a sprawling hostel with rooms in cabins, spread out over a hill overlooking the beach, and a few houses and shops the other side of the beach which you had to walk over the beach to get to, and in...