Out of Africa....we are out of Africa.Once we got in a few more rays at the beach we packed our luggage and piled into taxi to head to the airport.We had just onestop left and that was at the local Donkey Rescue. It was way out there in Spice country.We arrived to the site of a two legged goat! A Dutch Women and local Vetrun this place.The locals use the Donkeys and cows to pull these sometimes over loaded carts.They will get reports or see this happening and wil...

Serengetti Tanzania, it not easy for the migrating herds or us to get here. We left Sri Lanka flying to Maldives then on to Gwenzow China for a 19 hour layover.Dopey us we left Sri Lanka wearing shorts, tee shirts and sandals well China is winter time and the JFK sized airport was well not tropical. Joy finally gave upafter buying a $90 China Polo sweatshirt and somehow got the airline to pull our luggage out of the system and get some warmer clothes.It was prett...

Adios Sri Lanka! Well we made it out of Sri LAnka unscathed and landed back in the Maldives for a quick three hour layover we did our best at not getting sweaty as the outer part of the terminal is not air conditioned and they do't let you in the main terminal until two hours out. Once in we lapped up the cold air blowing around inside and sipped eight dollar milk shakes. Flying in was a treat as we had yet to land or take off in daylight and seeing the Maldives ...

AH Sri Lanka! We've been busy on the road here. We started out in the Capital City of Columbo.Nothing out of the ordinary thereloads of traffic and beeping horns. We were put up in the Cinnamon Grand Hotel a 5 star place that only costs $140 a night. FirstClass this place was! The evening was welcomed by a quartet three Violins and a Chello playing the music they played onboardthe Titanic as she was sinking,well at least in the movie I saw it a dozen times I know...

Merci Beau Coup? Coup? Hey theres trouble in Paradise. Seems that the people here in Maldives had enough of their Presidentand had a small coup yesterday and out he went. Not that it involved us at all as a matter of fact we didn't know until it was all over and done. There were rumours of the protesters lining up on the airport runway but that eats into the Tourist money and thats what it's all about here,Tourist.You see a couple of months ago the Government was...