Is it the rainy season or the dry season? Madagascar can't seem to make up its mind, we were just sweating now we are cold and getting rained on and now it's sunny again all in 15 minutes. For starters we left Antananarivo airport with a group from the Vatican, being a bad Catholic I could not tell you who he or they were, but dressed in full attire we and the group loaded up in an older 737-300. There were crates of chicken chicks chirping away as we headed sk...

Our Village visit went well; we traveled a good two hours over pretty smooth roads for Tanzania. Arriving it what was shopping day as everybody seemed to be out and about. We stopped by the Project Zawadi Office for an update on what was happening. In short Project Zawadi sponsors 40 children of hard luck and offers them an education and technical training; they also built the classrooms and are building dorm rooms for the children now. You can look them up on ...

Dust and dismemberment, that's what you will see along the road to Serengeti, Forgetting where I left this blog off at. We arrived in Ngorongoro National Park staying at a very nice lodge with a pool and poolside bar service. We woke to the early morning barks of some kind of dog fight and off into the crater we went. The view from the top is almost better than the view once inside. You drive along the crater with peaks here and there of the lost World below. ...

Yes Rwanda was a real blast! We ended our Gorilla trek by trekking to see the Golden Monkeys of Rwanda, I must say, see the gorillas first as the monkeys are good and put on a real show for you once you arrive but pales in comparison to the gorillas. Even so The Golden Monkeys are only found here in the three volcano's area so it was worth doing. A show by the local kids that I had to join in on and we were pretty Rwanda'ed up. Off to Kingali to our 5 star hotel...

Yes Rwanda was a real blast! We ended our Gorilla trek by trekking to see the Golden Monkeys of Rwanda, I must say, see the gorillas first as the monkeys are good and put on a real show for you once you arrive but pales in comparison to the gorillas. Even so The Golden Monkeys are only found here in the three volcano's area so it was worth doing. A show by the local kids that I had to join in on and we were pretty Rwanda'ed up. Off to Kingali to our 5 star hotel...