News from Andy in Africa
By Geoff Moore, on February 7th, 2010
Hello!
Were now in Tanzania in a little town called Moshi at the foot of Mt Kilimanjaro. Since i last wrote anything we have been travelling through the middle of Kenya where we went on a cycling safari at Hells Gate National Park, which was very spectacular, saw Giraffe, Zebra, all kinds of Gazelle etc. We then went to Nakuru and then Kisumu which is on Lake vVictoria, there we went on a Hippo safari on a boat and got close to some massive hippo’s and crocodiles!
We then went on to Uganda, in Uganda we started in a place called Jinja where we went on a huge trip white water rafting down the river Nile which was immense, flipped a load of times, and got the DVD of it all to show! We had christmas in a local village called Bujugali where we learned how to carry stuff on our head, and also have a massive christmas meal of Matooke (stewed plantain), beef, spicy sauces and other stuff, we then went to a party with some dodgy music and even dodgier ladies in Jinja!
New years we spent new years in Kampala, we would love to tell you what we did, but unfortunately dont really know, Kampala is a massive city with loads to do. We went on a 3 day safari up to Murchison Falls after where we saw massive elephants, crocodiles, giraffes, but still no bloody lions!
We then went to Lake Bunyoni which was stunning and had a relaxing few days swimming in the lake before we climbed a mountain called Sabinyo and then headed south into Rwanda. In rwanda we went to Gisenyi first which is quite surreal as it has a lake beach on it, which looks just like the sea. We then went to Kibuye futrher down the coast which was amazing also. We then spent a week or so in Kigali, a very nice city, we did the Genocide memorials etc and had a few excursions and nights out in some very dodgy little clubs, great fun though.
So now were in Tanzania, we have been to Mwanza and had some hellboy coach journeys.Had a few days in Arusha which is pretty much a party town with loads of people on the way to the Serengeti. In a week we’ll be on a beach in Zanzibar! Its a hard life!