We gave the Landy a good service at the excellent Foley's Africa in Livingstone and prepared it for 2 additional passengers while we were awaiting the arrival of friends Jan & Paul. They arrived on 4th March and we welcomed them with a few beers and a fantastic African meal including a bowl of very tasty Mopane worms! The next couple of days revolved around the magnificent Victoria Falls that we saw from the ground (which was like being in a torrential rain ...

The Tanzania / Zambia border crossing was the most chaotic and bureaucratic so far but after some persistence & running around on the Zambian side we eventually made it in. The first stage of our journey here was to head to South Luwanga National Park, through the sparsley populated and little travelled north eastern corner of the country. We had an interesting run in with a man in the village of Muyombe near the Malawi border who claimed to be an immigratio...

Rwanda was different to Uganda in many ways: English was no longer the first foreign language so we had to dust off our rather rusty French; we had to remember to drive on the right instead of the left; and with very few campsites we stayed in some excellent church run hostels instead. They weren't kidding when Rwanda was named "The land of a thousand hills". Our first few days were spent driving amongst them down the western side of the country. This...

Thanks to the Ethiopians we had lots of time for Uganda and spent 24 days meandering through this beautiful country. After a few days walking and relaxing at Sipi Falls we headed to Jinja, staying at a great campsite on the banks of the Nile. There was a good crowd in for New Years Eve and we propped up the bar till the early hours drinking Nile Special & Amarula with milk! We enjoyed exploring Jinja and doing some amateur detective work, tracking down the ...

Kenya was intended to be a transit country for us. We were to head to Nairobi, pick up our Ethiopian visas and drive straight up to the border after a couple of days with a group of people we'd met in Tanzania. Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans!! We successfully met up with the Tour d'Afrique support crew and our Turkish friend Oz in Nairobi and went with Oz the very next day to the Ethiopian embassy to get our visas. It was at this point th...