Cooking on Gassss!

Trip Start Aug 16, 2007
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Trip End Jul 16, 2008


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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Apologies for not updating for a while but the internet is really slow here and it we don't often have access to it either. For this reason as well we probably won't upload any photo's till later in our travels.

Don't wanna go into it too much but we finally got our luggage back at the 11th hour before we set off on our overland tour 9 days ago. Was a massive relief coz we really didn't wanna set off on our trip without it.

We set off in our truck at 8.30am from Nairobi 9 days ago. It's sort of like a massive Landrover and we spend alot of time on it getting from one place to another with about 25 other travellers, a cook and a driver/mechanic. All's good with the people, we all get on really well and are having a good laugh which is a neccessity coz we spend all day together. The driving around can be a pain in the ar$e but some of the scenery is breath taking and with sleep/ipod/read/stare out of window, the time seems to go quite fast. The first days drive to Arusha in Tanzania took about 10 hours so we got there early evening and had to set up camp for the first time. Just as mine and Vikki's luck then that it was p!ssing down after an hour of setting up our tents! You have to remember, we're in Africa and On The Go tours who we are using don't seem to supply tents that can deal all too well with a steady rain fall and thus we had the wrost nights kip ever! We woke up (if we did indeed sleep at all) wet, cold and in need of a hot shower but hang on a  minute, hot and clean showers are a bit of a rarity here as well so I had to settle for sticking my head under a cold, muddy shower and washing my hair with some johnsons baby shampoo. Vikki just got up and got dressed and didn't even bother. The rest of the day was spent lounging for me but Vikki went on a morning tour of a Masai Tribe village nearby and she really enjoyed it. They sort of live in these round house made of pretty much straw and sh!t and they are a traditional african tribe and 'live off the land' if you like, (which reminds me you wouldn't believe how poor everyone is. I've not seen one place that looks nice and it's amazing to see how the people are so friendly considering their circumstances, they're almost oblivious to how bad it is).

Next up we do a 3 day trek to the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater to a spot of safariing.
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