New post on Maralal in Kenya, Tompsons Falls in Kenya and Nile River Explorer in Uganda on the website please go and look at these posts. Next post will be our experience trekking the Gorillas in the Bwinsdi National Park in Uganda.…
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Nile River Explorers – Uganda
We really took our time and packed up and then headed out as well. The border was only about 150kms away and the roads were bad, the ruts in the roads meant you really had to have your wits about you in order not to lose it on these roads. We passed a group of about 5 overloaded trucks carrying…
Tompsons Falls Kenya
We left on an equally bad road towards Thompsons Falls as we were going to see the flamingoes at the lakes, only to find out that it was ridiculously priced to get into the parks, $80 per person $30 camping per person and then another $xxx for the vehicle. What an absolute rip-off, so we decided we would rather see…
On route to Maralal
We packed up and bid farewell to Lake Boringa. Someone we had met along our travels mentioned that Maralal was a nice place to visit so we headed out towards Maralal. The roads were rough and the scenery although pretty was not spectacular. The annual camel Derby is held in Maralal, and it was strange to ride along the dirt…
Kakamega Forest
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left and continued on our way towards Victoria Lake. We arrived at Lake Victoria did some shopping at the Nakumatt and then started looking for a campsite. As for the lake no one would ever say there is a lake there as it is covered hycinth. The first one was very dodgy and we…
Maasai Mara
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.…
Back to Nairobi and onto Maasai Mara
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.…
Twigga Campsite – Mombasa
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left Red Elephant Lodge after breakfast and headed for Mombasa. We arrived at noon and were happy to get there early as we could enjoy putting camp up in the light, only to hit Saturday traffic and what a nightmare. There were miles and miles of trucks. A passing motorist said to Larry that…
Red Elephant Lodge – Voi
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left Nairobi and headed towards Mombasa what a nightmare of a road. The trucks and cars drive absolutely hectic and you need to have your wits about you in order just to stay on the road. It is about 600km from Nairobi to the coast and we knew from the onset that we would…
Jungle Junction – Nairobi
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We set up camp at Jungle Junction and wondered where everyone was as there were just 4 wheel drives and motorcycle all over the place. The only person sitting around was Burt, he was reading a book and came over to say hi. The nice thing about JJ’s is this is the meeting place of…
On route to Kenya
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We had a fare amount of Tanzanian Shillings left so just outside Arusha we filled up with Diesel and bought some goodies at a shop near the filling station. The cashier was so thankful that we had choosen her little shop to spend the last of our shillings. She was so helpful and walked around…
Coffee Bean Campsite – Kilimanjaro
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We plugged into the Garmin that the next destination was Moshi and it took us down a 4wd road which at some places we thought we werent going to make it. At one particular spot I even said to Larry take the phone and put it in your pocket and jump out if you see…
Mambo View Point
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We had a lovely drive through the rain forest on our way to Mambo Viewpoint campsite ($5 pppn). We set up camp and enjoyed camping with Gabby and Marcelle for the 2 nig hts they stayed. We took a walk to the vewpoint, a little of a challenge for me with my dicky ankle but…
Dar es Salam to Bogomoyo then Irente Farm
We continued to Bagamoyo and spend the night at Travellers Lodge ($12 pppn) we thought it extremely expensive for what they offer but it is the only options we had as we had left Dar reasonably late after we picked up our charger. We left and headed toward the Umsambara Mountains where the Irente Farm is situated, we had read…
Dar es Salaam
The road to Dar was bad although some sections of the road were newly tarred there were long stretches of detours and I was surprised not everything in the Trax broke. We arrived in Dar late afternoon and made our way to Kipepeo Beach and Village $8 pppn). According to all our information this was the place to set up…
Kilwa
Our first stop in Kilwa was at Kilwa Dreams and decided not to spend the night there as we felt the $15 per person per night was very expensive. We headed for another camp site that Garmin had picked up called Seaview camp ($10 pppn), we arrived to a lovely bush campsite overlooking the bay in Kilwa. The beach was…
In Tanzania on route to Mtwara
From Masisa we headed towards Mtwara on the coast. We were in absolute in awe with the beautiful scenery, riding next to the rice plantation and coconut plantations. We stopped at one of houses they were selling coconuts and they were put into a basket made out of coconut leaves which we decided to keep as it is a very…
On route from Pemba to Tanzania Border
We left Pemba and stopped by at a little computer shop which we had noticed a few days earlier to see if they had a laptop charger for me, however the shop was still closed and we needed to wait until after 9am in order for the shop keeper to arrive. They showed me a charger which was not the…
Pemba Bush and Beach Resort
We left Ilha da Mozambique and headed towards Pemba. We were really looking forward to Pemba and it is one of the destinations that was on Larry’s bucket lists. We had read and heard so many wonderful things about Pemba with it aqua waters and white sandy beaches typically thinking that it was some type of Tropical Island. Our dreams…
Casuarinas – Ilha de Mozambique
Casuarina campsite is run by a fantastic Italian named Davide and his wife Spohia. He has been running the place for the past year and is loving every minute of been in this wonderful setting. He came from Milan where he was a chef and decided that a more simple way of living suited him better. Davide was very excited…
Nampula
We travelled from Zalala just outside Quelimane to Nampula and passed one of the cleanest towns I have ever seen in Africa called Mocuba. The scenery had changed dramatically and we were enjoying the miombo forest and mountains of the area. We knew that there were quite a few campsites in Nampula so set the Garmin for them all as…
Zalala Beach Lodge (500 Mets per night)
Zalala Beach Lodge (500 Mets per night) We followed the road from Quelimane down to Praia de Zalala on an extremely badly potted tar road. It was rather disappointing as they don’t cater for campers, however they did say we could camp there and showed us a barrack near the workshop. The one advantage of being near the workshop is…
From Beira to Quelimane.
We stopped off at the market to pick up some ciggies and buy a mosquito net which we want to use when we are lying on our hammocks. Then we stopped off at a MCel office to see if they could get my Mozam sim card working with our blackberry but to no avail, so I am realiant on using…
Punda Maria to Beira
We have eventually left Gauteng behind us as we have visited with the children and family for 2 months. I must admit that it was lovely seeing everyone however I realise that I have lost nothing in Gauteng anymore. We headed out after doing our last minute shopping, the road north was calling strongly and we were happy to oblige. …
Mulanje Mountains
This is south of Blantyre and when we arrived in this beautiful part of Malawi with the huge tea plantations at the base of the mountain it felt as this was the place that we could stay at for a few nights to recharge our batteries after the brain draining of the past week. This was not to be as…
Blantyre – Kuunika Foundation
From the Zomba Plateau it was off to Blantyre to take part as volunteers in the Kuunika Foundation project that Muskoka Foundation have formed a partnership with. We arrived and met up with Steven, Peter, Raj and the chief of the village. We had been offered accommodation at Peter’s home near the centre. After discussing the way forward we departed…
Zomba Plateau
Zomba Plateau is a special place and it really feels as there is not another soul in the world. Zomba Plateau is a huge slab of mountain raising some 1800m behind the town which is so full of history and the most beautiful old colonial house winding up the mountain. This is now home for the next 3 nights before…
Palm Beach – Mangochi Malawi
On route to Palm Beach we stopped in at Monkey Bay to pick up some supplies to find that the Metro was not much help as the items we needed were not to be found on their shelves, so Terry suggested that we go past Palm Beach to Mangochi. First stop was Halaal butchery and you could just see the…
Sunbird – Livingstonia Beach Hotel and Camping
From Chintheche we continued our trip with Sue and Terry and decided that instead of pushing through to Palm Beach we would make another stop. They had stayed at a campsite many years ago so we decided to venture from Salima down towards Senga Bay, where we camped at Livingstonia Beach Lodge who also have camping (1500 kwacha pppn). We…
Sunbird Nkopola Lodge – Mangochi Malawi
Sunbird Nkopola Lodge (1000 kwacha pppn) We had a whole 20 minutes to travel to our next home which was Nkopola. Been the only campers there was a treat and the solitude gave us the opportunity of working on our presentation for a volunteer project we are doing just outside Blantyre. The campsite is a little way from the lodge…