During my first day in Uganda I went white water rafting in Jinja with Nile River Explorers on which is the source and start of the nile. The drive took an hour from Kampala and when there we had a debreif and paid our $125 for the day rafting. After breakfast we headed out on to the water and I was with 4 candians in my boat. They had never been white water rafting before and this was my 3rd time. The rapids were pretty good, there was 4 grade 5 rapids and a n...

I arrived into Tanzania on Thursday the 13th of March after being told 2 days before by my boss that I was required to go, I was currently working in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa at the time, so I quickly booked my flights and jumped on the plane. I was most pleased to get given the opportunity to go to work in Tanzania as I do love South Africa but it is time to get back to the real Africa again. The reason why I came to Tanzania was to deal with some volunt...

During October - December 2007 and January to March 2008 I worked in Pietermaritzburg which is the capital of the Kwa-Zulu-Natal Province and is an hour north of Durban.During my first period of stay I was living with Sam our South African manager and her son in a house outside of Maritizburg which was great fun. I worked from the house as well and it was good to get into a routine again. In the morning I would go to the local gym which was about 4km away do a ...

I flew into the Gonkar airport from Shanghai and did not have to show my Tibetan visa to anyone which was weird. We were told that you had to buy a visa before you could enter Tibet but this was not really a problem, I had meet some travellers who did not even have a visa. I had to go as part of a tour group, but the group consited of just me so I was picked up by a lady and her driver and taken to my hotel, and thats the last I saw of her, so much for the tour ...

Whislt working in Shanghai I took some holiday time and went to Xian to see the Terractor Warriors. I landed in at the Xian airport and meet some english lads who I went to a backpackers with. Xian itself is not that intersting and is extrmeley polluted, it is hard to see down the street when you step out of the backpackers. It does have an intersting medival castle wall suronding the city itself but apart from that there is not much on offer. If it was not for...