Alicia 11th March - Cape Town - Day 1 post Zambezi. Classic moving hostels to Penthouse on Long. Late leaving then had a lush lunch at a little cafe called Zula and had dinner at a Thai Restaurant on Long Street - 55 rand (£4) for curry and a cider! 12th March - Table Mountain Tried to get up early to climb Table Mountain, but in classic Mike and Leece fashion, we were faffing didn't take enough water. Got to the start at Plettenkip Gorge trail at 11...

Mike: Trip day 1: We left Lake View Lodge at 6:15am to reach the MoAfrika Lodge. After a quick run through of what was going to happen that day as well as a tour of our truck "Rumphi" (all the Acacia trucks were named after African rivers), we packed our stuff into the spacious lockers at the back on the truck (just inside the door), there was only 9 of us and 24 lockers, which luckly afforded us to have a couple of lockers each (Alicia and I had 3 between us)...

Mike Day 1: After a long flight to Johnnesberg, including a long flight from Mumbai to Nairobi then hanging around in the small Kenyan airport for a few hours (the only entertainment was a small TV where we found out about the new pope), then back on another Air Kenya flight to take us down Jo'berg, finally arriving in O R Tambo airport at just gone midday. When we arrived in Jo'berg we collected our lugguage and immediately tried to continue with our quest to...