13 April: Spent the day exploring Kigali starting with a trip to the Genocide commemorative museum with a number of other girls. The museum was great and gave a very real and sad history of the 100 days in Spring 1994 where over 2 million people were killed, the majority of Tutsi origin. The blame for the rivalry between the three ethnic groups, Tutsi, Hutu and Twa was placed firmly at the Belgians door. It was the Belgians who first highlighted the differences b...

11 April: We crossed the border to Kenya after having to tip the officials as Sean only had one page as opposed to the two required for a Kenyan visa. Nairobi or Nairobbery as its affectionately known was busy and our hotel was lovely. We arranged dinner in the hotel later that night for the remaining group and me and Gordon spent the evening packing and repacking bags! Unfortunately HP couldn't make dinner as he got malaria. Great way to spend his two weeks off!...

7 April: We arrive early in Arusha where we stop off at the local heritage and culture museum where we can also buy some tanzanite and crafts. Then on to our camp site with snake park attached! There were also massai markets and a massai museum just outside the camp site. The snake park was cool with lots of different venomous snakes and other animals including owls, baboons and even crocodiles. Gordon was very brave and held both a snake and a baby crocodile. Di...

31 March: We leave the lake of the stars and make our way across the border into Tanzania. The border crossings were fine and even though the Irish are meant to pay $100 for a Visa we got away with $50! There was a market at the border and I ventured in looking for a Malawi flag. Its amazing how they work - I asked in one shop for the flag and he said no but obviously called out to his friend and like a network of ants word spread that a white girl was looking fo...

27 March: Long drive leaving Zambia and heading into Malawi. The border crossover was interesting and thankfully we had no hassle. We changed money with the "guys" at the border - all of whom lined up at the truck with wads of notes and changed money for us! Interesting! Malawi is a very poor country, the poorest we visited on this trip. However the people are super friendly and pride themselves on this. The lake covers one third of Malawi and the residents are ...