Up early for a morning game walk in Grumeti, guided by Max. We learnt a little about local floral and fauna. As we walked towards the wildebeest and zebra they ran away. We saw some elephants in the distance and listened to them trumpeting. It was a lovely way to start the day. We had a leisurely morning in camp departing at 1100 hours as you only get 24 hours in the Serengeti. We were overnighting with afternoon and morning game drives. We were privileged to se...

We started the day at a supermarket purchasing lunches for the next 3-4 days. No vegetables though so on our long drive we stopped in a village and bought from the local market. We enjoyed this as an opportunity to negotiate with locals, although we found that everything ( whether for one or a dozen) was "1000". A bit of negotiating helped some what. In the afternoon we had a game drive on the outskirts of the Serengeti. We saw the beginning of the wildebeest m...

A long driving day to get to Mwanza, the second largest city in Tanzania, that is on the shore of Lake Victoria. Vikki ride in the cab with David to regain her equilibrium. Both of us have had minor melt downs with by the end of week 3 of our 73 day adventure. Vikki always knew that being part of a group for so long was going to test her patience. Tessa, as an experienced independent traveller is chaffing at so much being organised and the restrictions on the bas...

We spent the morning driving through the beautiful hilly green & fertile countryside of Rwanda. We are sad to have only spent 1 night in this country. It is one of the more expensive places we have been - with a cafe latte costing approximately what it would have in London. However the people appear to be very friendly with big smiley waves to us and everyone seemed to be working, with less gender differentiation. Both men & women were working in the fiel...

Within 15 minutes of leaving camp we were at the border crossing. Completed with relative ease, including watching the local cattle on the Ugandan side keep the lawn in check. It took about an hour including the truck being searched by the Rwandan customs police (plastic bags are illegal) and 3 of our truckers having to get visas. Rwanda is beautiful, known as the land of thousands of hills. Rwanda is an hour behind Uganda, so we gained an hour of time - howeve...