Hello reader, and welcome to my first post Africa blog. Well, I had a bit of a rough time of it on leaving Africa having picked up Tonsilitis on my last few days in Johannesburg. I had a sore throat that was gradually getting worse and was very congested. I spent the first day in Dubai not being able to swallow any food or drink and it being painful to talk and only being able to open my mouth a few millimetres, so i just lulled around the youth hostel for that ...

Well this will be my last entry from Africa after 2 and half months of fun driving south down the continent and having the best time. Here goes On leaving Swellendam the truck drove scenic route 62 across mountain passes and through canyons and gorges across country to Outshoorn, where we went to view the cango caves. These caves were very impressive with huge openings underground where the stalagmites and stalagtites were the biggest i have ever seen many link...

Hi everyone and welcome to my next blog entry On leaving Swakopmund we quickly crossed the tropic of capricorn for some cheesy photos at the sign travelling through desert landscape being chased by thunderstorms that felt as if they were going to hit us and take us away. The landscape seemed to change every 10 minutes as we travelled further south which meant i was looking out of the window mosty of time admiring the countryside which was other wordly. The next...

Its been a week since my last blog entry and prob one of the best weeks of the trip so far, now in Namibia which is probably my favourite country so far. I went on a scenic flight over the Okavango delta in Western Botswana which was something else. Having just spent 3 days in the delta with fairly little evidence of animals apart from the odd dropping or two, to see the sheer number of elephants and hippos from the air was incredible, literally thousands. My fr...

Since my last blog i have moved from Livingstone, spending a surreal morning in Zimbabwe seeing victoria falls from the Zim side and wandering around the surrounding town. The town was like a ghost town with plush hotels and fancy restaurants with no one (or no one white) around due to the politics of Mugabe. The hawkers and beggars that were there seemed to attach themselves to us being one of the few tourists in the town, but they were genuinely friendly and no...