Whilst I was working in Tanzania I spent a week down in Blantyre looking after some volunteers and supervising the projects. I landed at Blantyre airport which is one of the most basic airports that I had been to with very basic facilities and equipment. I was picked up by my colleges friend who took me to my accommodation Kubula Lodge. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa and the journey from the airport to the lodge demonstrated that. Once I arr...

I left Kampala from Red Chilli backpackers to go on a tour that they ran to Murchison Falls which cost $170 for 3 days. I was travelling with 7 other people 4 Canadians, 2 Germans and 1 other Brit. We got to Red Chilli rest camp in Murchison Falls national park at around 5 after a long drive and we just chilled out and had dinner. We were told when we arrived that hippos came up to the camp to grace and whilst we were chatting during the evening a fully grown m...

Whilst I was in Rwanda I deciced to pop over to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I had been planning on going whilst in Rwanda and want to check out the security of the country before I went. I meet 3 American girls who were quite keen on the idea and we reserched the security system and although every government website told us not to go we spoke to locals and they said we would be ok, so we decided screw lets do it and we took a caculated gamble. We...

I first arrived into Kigali after a 9 hour bus ride from Kampala on the Jaguar bus. I was really tired after arriving and with the two american freinds I made we made our way to a lodge which was quite exspensive, there is not that much budget accomadation in Rwanda. The next day we headed off to Gisenyi near the border of Rwanda and the DRC for a few days. I returned to Kigali on the 5th of May and spent the night in a church accomadation where I had my own r...

I arrived in Gisenyi after a 3 hour plesent bus ride from Kigali the capital of Rwanda. The scenery on the drive was quite spetacular with lots of lush hills and an abudance of trees everywhere. Gisenyi is very close to the border of the DRC and is based on lake Kivu. The town itself is quite a pretty place and has a nice lake beach while you can overlook the mountains on the congo in the distance. There are a lot of western hotels here as well as the African f...