Wandering about looking at stuff
I guess when one thinks about Rwanda, the first thing that comes to mind is that in 1994, it was the site of one of the major genocides perpetrated in modern history. It turns out that the Rwandans have not forgotten about this either –…
Our entrance to Uganda was exactly as one would picture it: Green and misty. Or at least, that is how I have always pictured it. Things to note about Uganda, therefore include: It is indeed as jungly, green and misty as one imagines. There are…
The north of Kenya comprises a network of incredibly rough dirt roads, which we had the pleasure of riding upon for various journeys on arriving in the country. Our first experience of these was on leaving Moyale where I remain certain the bus driver was…
…or fun times with the police and military in Ethiopia and Somaliland. In summary, we: check out the hyena-men of Harar; go free camping in Eastern Ethiopia and Somaliland; visit the rock paintings of Las Geel; swim in the Sea of Aden and play pirates…
On Ethiopia: Ethiopia has some of the most desperate poverty we have seen (people with fly-blown stumps; armies of begger-kids; a disturbing number of blind people; deformities everywhere (I think this is due largely to polio); a serious amount of leprosy; even a couple of…
In an amazing stroke of luck, we managed to get our Sudanese visas a day early. On receiving the visas, we hightailed it to the port where our fixer, Kemal, assisted us in purchasing tickets on the ferry leaving for Wadi Halfa that evening. Once…
The short version: I receive an introduction to Egyptian grooming, we confirm that the big man in the sky has not been waiting on us for a discussion and see the return of my nappy hat, we return to (and conquer) Cairo and we see…
I guess the first thing to note about Cairo is that we did, in fact, manage to arrive in Cairo. After all the drama of the Tunisian Visa Crisis, we ended up paying 60 dinar each at the airport for the extra weeks we stayed…
The spark notes on this phase of the trip include: a bunch of Roman ruins, Thomas gets blitzkrieged by a deodorant bomb, Anthea and Thomas smoke sheesha in a desert oasis and buy several rounds of beer on the “marche noir”, a visit to the…
We had very few expectations of Algeria, other than (one) pretty much everyone we met told us not to go there and (two) Algeria likes a bit of old school French inspired bureaucracy. Number one appears to have been based on absolutely no information other…