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!! ...

... contiued from previous blog update.... after the safaris, we set off to Dar Es Salaam, which is unimaginably HOT and HUMID. but quite a nice city. we didnt stay long and after a quick trip round the city, and a night camping on the beach we got the ferry to GORGEOUS zanzibar. we did a quick tour of Stonetown, and a Spice Tour in the plantations which was really interesting and we had a very novel guide called Ali T!!!!!!! legend. we then went north and staye...

Well hello everybody from Zambia, hope you are all well! Apologies for the delay in adding this update, the internet has been absolutely appalling until now but now at last we can fill you in on the brilliant events of the last 5 weeks! So when we were last in touch we were in Jinga, the source of the Nile, in Uganda going to via Kampala to see the gorillas in Parc des National Volcans, Rwanda. After Jinga we spent a night in Kampala before setting of super early...