Galapagos Islands 15th May Day 1: After taking many different modes of transport and getting pretty confused, we eventually got to our boat, the Angelique. Once a sailing boat it has now been renovated to cruise round the Galapagos Islands - no sails sadly, all motorised. A quick briefing on the boat and then we were on our way back onto the terra firma of Santa Cruz, the island we had just travelled from, to go to the tortoise sanctuary. On our way in we saw a ...

Sodwana 3 May: An early start and we were picked up by Jack and Michelle to head to the coast -the stunning Sodwana Bay located just south of the South African and Mozambique border. After some clever packing to fit all the gear in we were off, stopping off en route for some first class biltong, and a little further into the journey in Jozini (bustling with all the locals, buses and getting parked in amongst open bakkies full of grapefruit and other fruits for s...

Victoria Falls A long drive from Lake Malawi took us to Victoria falls, through Zambia but more importantly via.... a Nandos (happy day after a month of truck food) in the capital of Malawi - Lilongwe. At our campsite in Zambia a campsite where we went wandering in the adjacent bush and saw Kudu crossing the path only metres from us and impala as well. We had been warned about buffalo but luckily didn't meet any. Amazing to see animals like this roaming free. F...

South Africa - the Coast. After a lovely couple of days in Joburg, seeing family, and catching up on everything we headed off for the next leg of our travels. The South African coastline!! An early start on the 9th (April) took us to Kimberley, with a tour of the "Big Hole" historic diamond mine. In the middle of nowhere this was a very interesting pit stop. Luckily for Sean I already have my big sparkly otherwise the pressure would have been on! Thi...

Well, after a few days with no internet access we are back - in the comfort of Joan Smuts' family room!! We have actually done quite a lot of stuff over the last few days: Chitemba - Lake Malawi It has been another long few days of driving on the truck through Tanzania heading towards Malawi. We were to blame for reaching camp after dark one night as an extended visit to a local police station to report Sean's mobile phone & iPod stolen took 2 hours after t...