I would have loved a long lie this morning but we had all agreed to go to the tea plantation for 11am and it was meant to be a 30minute walk!! I surprisingly felt fine when I woke (no hangover hehe!) So at 10.30am 11 of us all headed off, Lavina was the only one who had been there before so it was up to her to show us the way!!! We weren't long away from the cottage when most of us realised we were totally dehydrated after being out drinking last night, the su...

Well it was another early rise, safari was starting at 6.15am so we could see the sunrise! So meant breakfast was sharp 6!!! It was so pretty coming out of your tent looking across the open bush and seeing gazels and wildebeests in the morning! We got the option to take tea/coffee with us in special thermal safari mugs! First sighting was the sunrise :) my camera doesn't have a setting for sunrise or sunset so didn't manage to get any good pics! We then came ...

Ok so a day in the Mara Encounter consists of: 6am: Breakfast during sunrise looking out to the bush! 6.30am: The start of the morning game drive! 10.30am: Brunch back at camp 11am till 3pm: Siesta time 3.30pm: Afternoon tea and cake 4pm: Evening game drive starts 6.30pm: Sunset drinks in the bush 7.30pm: Return to camp for showers 8pm: 'bush tv' :) drinks round camp fire 8.30pm: 3 course candle light dinner 10pm: Escorted back to tents Yes getting up at 5.45am ...

Another exciting day in Africa! We got collected from Brackenhurst cottage at 6.30am for the 5 hour drive to Masai Mara! There was a mistake with the mini bus as the driver thought there was only 7 of us going but in fact there was 9 so it was a bit of a squash! The drive wasn't the smoothest of journeys, the first two and a half hours was on tarred roads but the last part was on dirt tracks basically! It was a long journey, we were then met by our Masai Encoun...

Well it's Wednesday already, half way through my first week and still really enjoying it! Every second Wednesday is a group project day, which means all volunteers don't go to their individual work they go as a group and help the community. In the morning we went to the feeding programme which has been set up by a lady called Pat Dixon, who basically hands out food supply's to approximately 400 elderly or sick people every fortnight! Her income to be able to run...