Well it appears that I couldn't have chosen a worse place to do the volunteering part of my holiday! Hmmm...nice one Sandra. Because of all the troubles out in Kenya,and especially Kisumu, I'm not going back there. I've rearranged things so that I'm now doing community work in Moshi in Tanzania instead of teaching english in Kisumu. Moshi's at the foot of Kilimanjaro,which should be a nice view to wake up to every day :-) We were supposed to be spending the last ...

Happy New Year everyone!Am back in Jinja now after an eventful few days,including dodging ebola, viewing gorillas and a near death experience for one of the group while white water rafting on the nile. The gorillas were absolutey amazing - seeing them was best thing I've ever done and I highly recommend it! They are such magnificent creatures and so gentle too. However, one of the teenage girl gorillas ran up to and tugged at my top, which was quite scary. She ...

OH MY GOD! I bungee jumped over the river nile yesterday! The scariest / most amazingest thing i've ever done! I will certainly never forget christmas day 2007 now! :-)

Since the last time I wrote we've driven all the way from Nairobi to Jinja. The first night we camped in Nakuru National Park, famous for Lake Nakuru with all of the flamingoes. We saw giraffes, black rhino, water buffalo, squillions of impala, baboons, a lion (albeit in the distnace taking its post snacking on buffalo nap!), wart hos, jackals and of course the flamingoes. The campsite was interesting as there no fence around it, so at one point our guide had to ...