Connor and Barry headed out to the Chinese Embassy to drop off our passports. Barry continued to be amazed at Connor's adventurous spirit, as he led the way. When the boys returned, we ventured out to Connaught Place - a large district of shops and restaurants - to eat, since the boys had reported seeing western-style fast food restaurants there after their sojourn to the bank the day before. We initially took bicycle rickshaws, which we cannot even begin to des...

What happened that morning was like something out of the movies. Our driver drove with maniacal speed around auto rickshaws, bicycle rickshaws, buses, bicycles, school kids, beggars, piles of rubble, cars, trucks, and - now that we were in India - cows. The streets were filled with debris and teeming with humanity; exactly how we'd pictured Delhi would be. The sun was blood red through the smog, and the city smelled of exhaust and many other odours that we didn't...

Midnight found us in Cairo, dreading our next moments. We wanted to stay near the airport in a nice place. A travel agency at the Arrivals hall suggested a 3 star hotel called the Oasis Hotel. However the price was 3 times what we'd paid at the New Palace (our first hotel in Cairo, several weeks back). Too tired to argue, we reluctantly agreed. When we got there, we knew Kenya had spoiled us badly. The hotel was not any nicer than Cairo's New Palace, except we h...

At first, our sleeper car was terribly hot, but it soon cooled down and we all slept well until 8:30 am. We packed up, ready to arrive at 9:00 am but at 9:08, we were still in the middle of nowhere. We checked only to discover that our arrival time would be 11:15! No great problem, as the train was clean, comfortable and one of the best ones we've been on. After arriving, we caught a cab for 500 shillings (double the price of Mombasa) to the Parkside hotel and,...

As the last stop of our safari, we asked to be dropped at the Mombasa train station so that we could book tickets to Nairobi for the following week. We arrived there at 1:30 pm. But Mombasa, like Egypt, is very Muslim. It was the last day of Ramadan, and as a result the buses weren't running on a normal schedule and the train station was closed until 2:00 pm. Joseph and David offered to drive us wherever we wanted to go, but there was a German couple waiting, as ...