Dar es Salaam was a nice break from the km’s we’d done since leaving Nairobi. A good place to kick back on the beach and enjoy a few cold beers. We also went through the painful experience of getting a Malawi visa for Iza. Not only was it one of the most expensive African visas [...]

Maybe it’s too early to be writing this (given we’re only about a quarter of the way through this big continent) and it can be interpreted as a blatant generalisation, but we have to ask - “Africa, where is your pride?!” We’re referring to the constant begging… And it’s not just the kids, crippled or [...]

With only 80km’s separating Jinja and Kampala, it didin’t make sense to overnight in the Ugandan capital. Anyway it’s a big city and we try to avoid them. We only wanted to stop for petrol, but Uganda is currently experiencing a fuel shortage and it wasn’t so easy to find. When we did manage to [...]

The five days we spent in Nairobi felt like ‘time off’ from our trip. We camped in a place called Jungle Junction, almost in the centre of Nairobi. It’s a popular place for overlanders to stop and the facilities (which include wireless internet) make it feel like a home away from home. A good place [...]