The next big highlight on the tour was Zanzibar. The tour was 3 weeks long but a lot of the time was actually spent driving long distances across East Africa, and there were only a few places we were stopping at for a few days. The rest were just stop overs for the night along the way. The first highlight was the Serengeti and the second was Zanzibar.  In order to get to Zanzibar we had to drive for 2 days from Arusha to Dar Es Salaam, where we were getting th...

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...