Yes I know its been a while but TIA my friends... TIA, we seem to be using that phrase a lot more these days. In Africa... This Is Africa, yes I'm aware its been stolen from a recent movie but its so true. I highly doubt that I'm going to be able to catch you up on all the fun and frivolities of the past 6 weeks or so since my last post... These following statistics are all my excuses and I'm sticking to them, currently I've taken just shy of 6000 photos since I left on the 28th September, this also doesn't include the photos still on both cameras. I've currently done more than 15,000 miles by land and sea not including plane flights, with another 8000 to go and I'm also currently using satellite internet which as you can imagine costs an arm and a leg.
Well merry Christmas to all and a happy new year, I hope that you all did lots of drinking and partying, though I should expect no less and everyone is ready for a huge 2008. I'm writing this on the shores of lake Malawi at a place called Kande Beach soaking up the sun (tropical rain/ wet season) , I spent Christmas on Zanzibar Island and christmas dinner consisted of lobster, lobster and more lobster (hopefully thats made everyone jealous). We've been travelling pretty quickly since we left the 'bwindi impenetrable forest' to make it to the beach for the christmas and again to make it here for new year but these places are so beautiful that it has all been worth it.
I didn't actually get around to posting this entry at Kande Beach so I'm now in Lilongwe the capital of Malawi and 30mins spare so heres my half hour recap of the past six weeks....
We left Khartoum early one moring to head towards the Ethiopian Border and this is where we got our first taste of Africa because as some of you know Sudan is an islamic country so people tend to group it as part of the Middle East. Once we got down to the south east of the country we got to a town called Gedaref which I distinctly remember looking like an african version of suburbia, with circular mud brick houses and thacted roofed houses all crammed togethor between fences of stacks and thorny bushes. It was here that we got a little lost down Gedarefs dirt roads and had about 10 different people point us in ten different directions for getting to the Ethiopian border. So once we got out of the town and on our way light was fading whcih meant we had to make camp for the night in an abandoned quarry about 50 kilometers from the border. It was this night that I happened to be on cook group and we decided to make a mushroom/ locust pasta, it just so happened that we camped on the side of a farmers field and swarm of locusts turned up in search of the lights on the truck. The dinner ended up tasting pretty good so no-one really complained to much, and the next morning we headed off to the border and a whole new and different culture.
OK, I've run out of time again I'll keep adding when I have time...
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