Karatu is the last town prior to the Ngorongoro Conservation reserve and Crater and then further onto the Serengeti National Park; it also marks the end of our western-celebrity status amongst local school kids on the road side. Jac even got the finger as see waved to the local kids when riding in the cabin with Lelei. The overland truck is left behind and we take the essentials needed for a three day game safari. The Maasai are shepherds, grazing cattle through...

From Zanzibar we head north through the Maasai steppe, a large plain leading to Mt. Kilimanjaro, following the Indian Ocean. We make camp at a local farm notable only for its warm packet brownies, equally warm Kili beers and a night cold enough that one of the windows on the truck shutters. The next day we travel with a makeshift window of mattresses and broomsticks and camp in the Usambara Mountains. The mountains are home to forest villages, ours called Lushoto...

Jumbo Rafiki’s, as evidence that we had been traveling non-stop for two months and that I have fully adopted the principles of Africa time, I haven’t gotten around to blogging our tropical adventures. From Lake Malawi we headed north to Tanzania’s southern highlands covering huge kilometres, some ten hours on the truck as we passed truck loads of produce crossing into Malawi which is landlocked and whom are largely dependent on imports for most food and l...