The land does not belong to the Aborigines, the Aborigines belong to the land. Those of you old enough, may also remember this being mention in the film Crocodile Dundee (1986)… This is an actual fact and not the stuff of movie fiction. Uluru or more commonly known amongst tourists as Ayers Rock, isn’t just…
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The Trials and Tribulations of the Tribe…
Waking up in camp, it was a beautiful moderately warm morning with a stunning blue sky with some scattered fluffy clouds making it ever so slightly overcast. The temperature was that of a sunny spring day here in the UK, so you can forgive me for being greatly deceived by this. Once breakfast was over,…
Discovering more than just wildlife…
An Eerie and Disturbing Route to the Mountains…
The journey to Kisoro was long but it came with many redeeming and not so redeeming features. The Ugandan landscape is breathtaking, a patchwork of history as well as being a very fertile landscape with much of it showing agricultural use. There are many rainforests and rolling hills in Uganda, a vast contrast to the…
Climbing a misty and mysterious mountain…
Crossing the Equator to the Lakes…
The Discovery of an African Love Story…
Don’t stop me now, I want to break free…
You might have guessed from the title, there is a rather famous link to my final destination…Zanzibar! Zanzibar was where the lead singer Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) of the famous rock group Queen, was born. Part of my tour on this island would take me to his hometown. We will get to that… Departing Nairobi,…
The in between and the beginning…
The Mysterious Imitation Game…
The title of this piece refers to the sign (photographed), that imitates that of the Hollywood sign, yet it appears to be shrouded in mystery as does Madagascar itself… Madagascar the island of immense history, has a biodiversity like no other and the title of a Dreamworks movie that had every potential of putting this…