Day 25 - Tuesday 15th July Today was insanely massive. We rose at 330am, to get ourselves organised, pack lunches, eat breakfast and head off by 5. We travelled south towards Dar Es Salaam - a very long and tiring 9 hour drive, to the Port, for the Ferry to Zanzibar. We slept the morning away, (me all rugged up in a sleeping bag), until our first loo stop at around 9am. After then, I decided to kill time by watching a movie on my IPad (Devils Knot - good movie,...

Day 22 - Saturday 12th July Had a really nice sleep in this morning with 10 or so hours sleep - this is what holidays are meant to be!! Got ourselves organized and packed up our tents as we are on the road by 8am. We are heading south east towards the Kilimanjaro region today. Our first stop is around an hour after leaving, back in Arusha, where I managed to get some wifi and a chat with Mum, and received some lovely and exciting text messages. From here, it wa...

Day 19 - Wednesday 9th July An exciting early morning today, as we take down our camp and pack our smaller bags for our Serengeti safari! Of course I wasn't smiling when I first woke up as I knew today's relevance, but after a quiet cry and flick through photos, it was made better (more bearable) by a hug from Jade, and a few sweet messages that filtered through on my phone. After breaky, we all divide into groups of 7 or so, jump into 3 different Jeeps and h...

Day 17 - Monday 7th July We had our new group departure meeting last night and met all the 'new kids'. Myself, Jade, Regina, Bob and Di are the originals, with 14 other new people - a mix from Australia, the US., Swiss and Russia. The group is generally younger too, average age being 24 ish. We luckily have Jacob continue on as our Tour Guide, and Juma as our Cook, but we get a new driver - Akyoo (achoo!). After the meeting, we had a Pizza and milkshake dinner ...

Day 12 - Wednesday 2nd July Up early this morning, as we have a looooonnnnggggg day of travel, from Rwanda, back into Uganda. The border crossing was interesting - we had to stamp out of Rwanda on the Ugandan side. As usual, Jade provided a job description of 'Public Servant' - rumor has it, Rwanda doesn't take too kindly to visits from constabulary of other nationalities. Upon departure, the immigration official questioned her in quite an aggressive manor, and...