We flew from perth to Ayers Rock, and got a great view of the (in Neal's opinion) highly over-rated site ("well, i'm glad we got to see it, but i'm more glad we didn't pay loads or drive for 5 days to get here!!" Edmondson, 2008!).... then we arrived in Cairns, in the rain. we explored all that Cairns has to offer in terms of free activities, the botanical gardens and nearbuy rainforest walks and the lagoon (free pool) as well as the markets. then we ...

well, we made it out of africa, no injuries, illness, major losses of luggage or thefts!!! (and no need to use the gun in jo'burg!) we first hit australia, very jetlagged in Perth. Caroline broke her record and waited till seven hours into the flight to start being sick, a vast improvement on previous flights!! Perth is a very nice city, very clean, spacious etc. but our hostel was AWFUL (ozi inn) but never mind that. on our first day we met rachel (off our afr...

apologies once again for the delay in updates (meaning this is going to be another big update!) We entered s.africa having been to fish river canyon (the second largest canyon in the world)- which was tres spectacular especially as we watched the sunset on valentines day there and then after a brief overnight at the orange river, including some wine tasting at a local vineyard we finally made it to cape town. Which is large, beautiful and exciting! we firstly di...

Namibia is WITHOUT a DOUBT my favourite country in Africa- awesome!!! (NEAL). we entered from Botswana and went to Windhoek- the capital and it was obvious that was, in places, a much more developed than anywhwere else we have been to. the country is full of germans, but this needs to be overlooked! in windhoek we went to 'Joe's Beer House' and ate game kebabs (turn away now any vegetarians out there!)- it had chicken, zebra, ostrich, crocodile and Kudu meat- Spe...

well, i will startby letting you know that Neal survived the gorge swing (it was awesome, a good warm up for impendingh bungee jumps/ sky dives etc!!) the zambezi did not burst its banks and we made it out fine, wet, but fine to Botswana. Botswana is relatively developed, it has a number of stable incomes/economies and it shows, despite this it is VERY cheap- a bottle of vodka - 2 quid and pints are about 40p, wine is simply ridiculous, all of which bodes well!! ...