Our safari ended in Johannesburg, South Africa, but not before needing to do some repairs to the starter motor of the truck in the middle of nowhere.
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Our safari ended in Johannesburg, South Africa, but not before needing to do some repairs to the starter motor of the truck in the middle of nowhere.
We ventured into the Okavango Delta in mokoros, dugout canoes made from tree trunks. We also took a flight on a tiny plane over the delta.
We got up really close to the animals on a 4WD Safari through Chobe National Park in Botswana.
We stayed in the town of Livingstone and took a helicopter flight over the magnificent Victoria Falls, and whitewater rafted down the Zambezi River.
In Zambia, we stayed on a houseboat on Lake Kariba. The highlight was watching a couple of elephants swim across in front of us from one side to the other.
After being held up at gun point, we crossed the border into Malawi and relaxed for a few days at Kande Beach, on the banks of Lake Malawi. We had a tour of the local school and enjoyed the laughter of the children.
It was just south of Dar es Salaam where our truck was stopped by guys in balaclavas carrying guns and machetes. They shot at us, hit us with machetes, and robbed us. Thankfully nobody was too seriously injured.
We caught the ferry across to Zanzibar and stayed in Stone Town, then ventured up to the northern part of the island and stayed on a beach resort.
We left Kenya and entered Tanzania. We went on a 4WD tour down into the Ngorongoro Crater, a 20 kilometre wide crater which is the perfect wildlife habitat.
Before leaving Kenya we stopped in at the David Sheldrick Wildlife park in Tsavo and saw firsthand the amazing work that they do in rescuing orphaned elephants.
We travelled to the Masai Mara National Park, and spent some time with the Masai people in their village.
We commenced our African safari in Kenya. It would take us through Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, and eventually South Africa..
Our tour along the Nile through Egypt had to be cancelled because of how sick Shaggy got. But we still got to visit the Sphinx and pyramids of Giza, and experienced the craziness of Cairo.
From Casablanca we travelled north to Rabat, and then to the port town of Tangier where we caught the ferry back across the Straits of Gibraltar to Algeciras in Spain.
Back to the coast and to Casablanca, with a wander through the local markets, and a tour of the Hassan II Mosque, the largest mosque in Africa.
The Medina and courtyards of Marrakech were an amazing sight, with snake charmers and alleyways full of little stones.
We caught a ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar and into Morocco, where our bus tour took us to Fes, Meknes, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, and finally to Tangier.