We started our 40 day overland Africa adventure on Monday when we met our travel buddies. We have John our Gadventures CEO, he will be our tour guide and cook up until Vic falls along with our driver Patrick. There is 14 of us in our team, majority ending their trip at Vic falls and about 5 of us going all the way to Cape Town, however we are not the only ones away from home for months a couple of people doing similar trips. So here we are...Mary from Canada, Gre...

Sunday - We had a lie in as breakfast is served until 10. We had nothing booked for our 2 days in Nairobi so quickly became bored, there is also signs in reception advising tourists not to go out without a driver so we felt like we were trapped in our hotel. Laura researched online what to do in Nairobi so we had the following options, there is a local giraffe centre where you can watch the giraffes eat breakfast and get a 'giraffe kiss', there is a local elephan...

After our long week at kili we returned to our Hotel, all desperate for a shower! We had to say goodbye to all our porters and CEOs and they gave us our certificates. We had a couple of hours to get ourselfs together before all meeting for dinner so we decided to wash our clothes, before we knew it we had 2 lines of washing hanging across our room and as the air was very humid we turnt the air con on full blast to try to dry it all. When we returned after dinner...

Day 1 - Marangu Gate to Mandara Hut Our day started early, we met for breakfast at 7:30 and found it hard to stomache anything as feeling nervous! We met our other two team mates Karl and Marcus also from Sweden. We met at 9 with all our bags which were quickly loaded by our 19 staff members! On the way to the National park gates we stopped at a shop for last supplies (some people had to buy water bottles because the national park do not allow tourists to carry...

We both slept so well last night, comforted by watching james bond sky fall before bed and I slept with my sleeping bag so I felt closer to home. Laura woke up with 4 bites on her left foot, the big toe swollen - not happy. We had our complimentary breakfast buffet which was okay, not the best but free! After breakfast we tidied our room then sat by the bar in the sun, we could hear singing and chanting and think it was coming from a local church. Ben invite...