Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Africa - The Retrospective Diary: An Introduction

Over the next few weeks/months I will be attempting to retrospectively blog about my 65 day overland in Africa with Tucan Travel. As a disclaimer, all that I will write is MY version of the truth and MY view of situations as I see it. I apologise in advance to anyone this may offend on any secrets I may reveal.

It was always my intention to write a diary/blog of my experiences during my 3 month break. I was able to do it Japan, but this was not possible in Africa for several reasons:

1. Access to Internet was intermittent
2. When we did get access to the internet it was always slow, making writing a long blog almost impossible
3. Even when I did have reasonable connection we were limited in the amount of time that we had to spend on the internet

I realised quite early on that a blog would be impossible so I took to writing a diary (with like a pen, and like a notepad - amazing I know!). Using the diary, and my now foggy memories, I'll attempt to recreate all 65 days on this blog and promise not to pull any punches. Guys on the tour can relax, I'll be using pseudonyms to protect the innocent, and the not so innocent.

For an overview of the tour, I would have linked you to the Tucan Website, but it looks like my tour doesn't exist anymore, Tucan have completely revamped their website. In terms of the route that we took:

Kampala, Uganda -> Rwanda -> Uganda -> Kenya -> Tanzania -> Zanzibar -> Malawi -> Zambia -> Botswana -> Zambia -> Cape Town, South Africa

The closest thing to my tour would now be:

http://www.tucantravel.com/tour/overview/classic-africa/fca

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