Just as you thought things couldn't get any better, they have! We spent the equivalent of driving from London to Glasgow yesterday but we're still upbeat for our early morning visit to the park and the chimps. All set and prepared for wading through leech filled swamps in my size 3 gold pumps, i waited for the ranger. We had been told 7am so were all patiently waiting, to be told he was still in bed. An hour and a half later we were off. 300m down the road we s...

A happier start to the day as I find that after counting my cereal bars, I can have 2 today and 2 tomorrow plus still have one left over! It is 28c at 7am as we leave to go to Tai National Park. This is to the very west and is in Cote D'Ivoire / Liberia. It is somewhere I have wanted to go to for ages as it is 40 km square (is that big, I have no idea?) of original rainforest and jungle, with tons of birds, Pygmy hippos, chimps and leopard. We have had to take a ...