Just before you all correct my spelling or immigrant... let me tell you this. They'll only let me have a certain number of characters on the title line and immigran sounds even worse! So I'm guessing you're wondering how I managed it? Well, I'd like to tell you that I trekking through the DRC whilst tracking gorillas without a guide and then that I hacked my way through the jungle with my machete and found myself in Uganda, running away from Rwandan rebels... b...

I'm in Rwanda!! And I'm alive! Yesterday I crossed one of the most dangerous borders in the world (which I didn't know until I'd crossed it) and the only dangerous thing about it were the looming baboons who looked as though they would jump on us when we were crossing the bridge in no-man's land!!! And I would have been able to cope with that as I've had my rabies shots! We got on the bus at 5.15am in Mwanza in Tanzania which is on lake Victoria (the 2nd large...

We got the train to Mwanza from Morogoro at around 11.30pm on Friday evening. The platform was buzzing with people and looking up into the rafters of the train station we saw rats running around trying to feed off the waste left from the last train load of passengers. We had booked three first class places on the train but had been told there were only two vacancies on the train so that two of us would have to share a bed. Our carriage numbers were written up ...

Well, they say that there's a sucker born every minute and m\by no means am I the exceotion to that rule. I was just charged 25,000 TSH for a taxi from the airport t o my hotel. Daylight robbery!!! For those that are not familiar with Tanzanian shillings, that's about twelve pounds when the going rate is 8000 TSH which about four quid. My hotel room is smnall and stuffy (as promised in the guide) but was the only one I could fine at a reasonable price with ...

6.30am Qatar airport Just had my first experience with an Arabic toilet... refreshing. But how do you dry off? Damp and confused Take That fan, 20, Cardiff