Uganda is described as the "Pearl of Africa" and wow did it live up to this expectation. We came to Uganda with no plans, ideas or time limits about what we were going to do. We arrived in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, late on a Tuesday night after a 14 hour bus ride from Nairobi. As you can imagine I was pretty exhausted as we jumped into a cab and headed to Kampala Backpackers, approx. 2km out of town. My first impression of Kampala was not a good one becau...

When dad asked me what country in Africa I would most like to go to (back before I left to travel Asia last year) my response was Rwanda. I'm not exactly sure what attracted me to this country, as it does not have an outstanding feature such as Victoria Falls or the Pyramids of Giza, however it was the country in Africa I knew the most about. Back in 2010, my teacher Miss McCarthy of Year 10 elective geography spent a term teaching us about the horrific genocid...

Unfortunately our flight form Cairo to Addis Ababa (AA) was pushed back a day, meaning we only had a total of 6 full days to explore the newest country for both of us (since Malawi in March) of Ethiopia! After a 2.15am flight, arriving in the cooler capital city at 7am we were faced with a very long line (which to me didn't even appear to be moving) to get our visas on arrival and then again for customs/immigration. About 2 hours later we were finally out of th...

Blog Entry from DAD :) Our 3 week period in Egypt was pretty much organised through the 18 day On The Go group tour which covered the pyrmaids of Giza, 3 nights in villages in desert oases, 4 wheel driving and overnight desert camping, Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, a day trip to Abu Simbel, a 3 day felucca cruise down the Nile sleeping on board, and finally 4 days on the Red Sea in the resort town of Hurghada. Our accommodation while on tour was 4 star ex...

Egypt is the first "middle eastern" country I have ever been to - I know it's part of the continent Africa except even Egyptians refer to themselves as 'middle-eastern' rather than African. And OMG is it different!! We arrived at 1.30am on a Sunday morning and were collected and driven to our small family-run hotel, which happened to be overlooking the ancient Pyramids of Giza as well as the Sphinx. This was amazing to wake up to later this day as the pyramids ...