There is a point on a long haul bus trip that you question your sanity - why would you put yourself through this?We boarded our bus at 12.00 noon and five hours later we were not very far into our journey, having spent most of this time going through the formalities at both sides of the border. Every body's luggage was unloaded and searched by the Namibian authorities. After this the bus drove on through the night, with not too many stops, and eventually we a...

Back to Livingstone for a little R& R - well not too much, when we first arrived we had booked two more tours! The first was to Livingstone Island, which sits right out in the river, at the top of Victoria Falls. A motor boat took us out there and the river seemed quite calm with no hint, that in a very short distance, it was going to spill over the edge in such a dramatic way. The view of the falls from the island was spectacular and quite a different perspectiv...

Cruising down the Chobe River in Botswana, in a relatively small tinny, the sun shining, birds singing, hippos snorting and elephants cavorting.......what bliss. Ah but to get to this stage there were a few buses to catch, stresses to alleviate..... minor dramas along the way.After leaving the relative comfort of our train carriage at Kapiri Mposhi, we were again immediately thrust into the world of public African buses. We were hustled and bustled into a coaster...

Our carriage on the train was quite comfortable, and as the first night set in, we made up our beds, read for awhile, braved the train toilet and tried to sleep. It should have been easy, but unfortunately the bar lounge was behind our carriage and a steady stream of drunken passengers, kept going up and down the narrow corridor, passing our door. At midnight we awoke to a loud knocking on our door and startled, went to open it, to find we had been locked in! It ...

We boarded our ferry after a comical sequence of pushing, shoving and queue jumping before finding our first class seats. First class in Africa is a bit of a misnomer but it is better than economy! For the whole trip from Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam we were surrounded by mosquito's and still being a bit paranoid, due to the disruption of taking our malaria drugs, we spent the time catching and killing them, much to the amusement of the locals. Once we had the m...