Settled in at WildLife Camp in South Luangwa National Park. We were very excited that the internet would be available between 12 and 2 pm but it isn't working. Yesterday we had another 5 or 6 hour drive bone shaking along in the searing heat after our usual 5 am wake up. It is light at 5 am and we can watch the sun rise while we have breakfast. We had a rescue mission at one stage when we came across a "bus", a two wheel drive van laden with gear on top and abo...

Dust,heat,sand,endless kilometres of dusty dirt roads, village after village after village, primitive border control, freedom camping at dusk, elephants, hippo, antelopes, crocs, zebra, wort hogs, buffalo, baboons, vervet monkey, bush bucks, big birds, little birds, 5am rising, scorpions, tsetse fly. Sooooo much to absorb. This safari is just as it was marketed, unpredictable, flexible and participatory. We are having a second night at this camp so we are able...

First day on safari We met our Safari team yesterday at 4pm and had a bit of a briefing and learned how to put our tents up. We have very substantial tents that are easy to erect and fit our 2 minimal mattresses in with a wee bit to spare. It was such a relief to sleep outside after overheated brick houses with unreliable power supply for the fans. The night got quite cool and this was the first morning I have woken without a headache. Our driver, Zandré, wh...

A lot has happened since the last blog and I have had no wifi until today. We had a hell trip to Malawi, both feeling unwell and travelling with smaller African airlines which weren't that comfortable. Very hot and airless planes and 3 hours in transit at Nairobi where the airport is hot then 45 mins on the ground in the plane at Harare. Pete still had the flu and no energy and I had a cold and was becoming very nauseous. Tried to make it to the toilet on the las...

Sadly we had to leave the beach and head for our last night in Zanzibar. We haven't quite made the most of it due to both being unwell. Starting to wonder if mumma and poppa are too old for this type of travelling. When we arrived in Stonetown there was confusion about where we were staying as it was a private apartment and it took me a while to find that I had been sent detailed instructions the day before. There were lots of people trying to help us and we trud...