Having enjoyed my first few days of Australia in Sydney, just prior to me flying onto Melbourne, I took a ride out to Botany Bay where Captain James Cook first landed in Australia. The backstory of Botany Bay is, Captain James Cook first landed in Botany Bay, Australia, in 1770 having departed from Plymouth, UK…
I wake the following morning in my tent and all my chest and shoulders are burning and I feel hot… The rest of me is fine. I’d spent the previous day applying moisturiser with SPF to my face and whilst the temperatures on the Plains were that of a UK spring day, it was very…
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…
As we continued to travel towards the mountains, a child threw himself at the back of our 4×4. We were concerned for his safety and the driver slowed as we begged him to get off. He was determined not to. We finally reached the base of Mount Virunga…Child still attached, we got out into a…
I was still buzzing from the experience of being in the presence of the gorillas and my time on Mainland Africa would be over with in a few days as I was due to head over to Zanzibar for some relaxation. We boarded the truck at 6am and began our journey to Lake Bunyonyi, it…
After a restful night it was another early start and I was to visit and walk around Lake Naivasha. There, I would come face to face with some more of Africa’s amazing wildlife but also H5N1. For those of you who do not recognise H5N1, this is Avian Bird Flu and it was declared a…
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 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…
I arrive late afternoon at Lake Mantasoa and the view from the hotel of the surroundings are that of beautiful old country. The thing with Madagascar is some of the landscape looks like it’s had old fashioned American influence. The only way I can describe it is like the Wild West. Like the scenes of…
Waking up in Andasibe (Perinet) things weren’t so great as my guide was still missing and so I headed to the lodge’s restaurant area to grab a little breakfast and figure out from my Brandt guide what to do. One of the things you get very familiar with in Madagascar is the food and this…