Posts Categorized: Africa 2008

There are more photos available to view on this website from my recent travels in Africa. I have geo-tagged all the images so you can see the location of which they were taken. As I wasn’t lugging a GPS device round with me, the co-ordinates I have stamped the images with are just an approximate… Read more »

It has come to an end. I’m in my final destination, Dar es Salaam, waiting to catch my flights home really. Zanzibar I have spent the last week in Zanzibar – some of the time in the main town; Stone Town the rest on a remote part of the island in an aim to be… Read more »

Amusing stickers seen on vehicles here: This is my justice – Bumper sticker on massive lorry I say no to music – Sticker plastered over radio in taxi Jesus says – Just left at that on another bumper sticker After saying goodbye to the mainland I am now on the island of Zanzibar. Everyone must… Read more »

I am now in my new home, Bagamoyo, a small fishing village with quite a colourful past. My room here is actually a hut, a bandas, with the walls made from mud and wood and the roof from palm leaves – doesn’t sound great yet – but its on the beach and about 50m away… Read more »

Just got back from my safari here in Tanzania, safari is actually the Kiswahili word for travels so I guess this whole thing is a safari. Anyway, I have just been on what we know as a safari to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater. I actually started, on monday, by spending the day and night… Read more »

Mountain 0 – Rob 1 !! At 05.57 East African Time, Thursday 4th December I scaled the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro! I say scaled, but I was actually staggering as this was the hardest thing, mentally and physically, I have ever done. The climb I have just spent the last 7 days climbing Kilimanjaro, using… Read more »

Jambo being ‘Hello’ in Kiswahili! I am now in Moshi, Tanzania having spent a few days in Nairobi. This is the base for climbs up Kilimanjaro which I start tomorrow, it looks huge from down here! The climb will take around 7 days during which time we will always be at high altitude where it… Read more »

It’s D-Day… I’m off well behind enemy lines…!! I’ve had my last meal, I’ve wrapped my Christmas presents, said my goodbyes and watched all kinds of films set in Africa to get an idea of what/where I’m going. But that’s half the problem/excitement of this, I have no idea of what to expect! I’ve got… Read more »