Before we get started...
Hello everyone. It's that time of year again!
This year I will be visiting Kenya and Tanzania, for a total of 16 days (not including travel). I was initially torn between climbing up mount Kilimanjaro with minimal safari, or not doing that and instead enjoying maximal safari and a few days relaxing on Zanzibar at the end. After much deliberation I chose the latter, the 5 days of "moonscapes" (read: barren rock fields, like the moon) on the Kilimanjaro climb being the deciding factor. Plus that trip was much more expensive, presumably owing to the cost of having extra Men to carry your things.
Because this trip is maximum safari, I think I might actually be out of wifi (and quite possibly even mobile signal) range for the vast majority of the trip (I told my coworker Amy that there might be a Man whose job it is to hold up an antenna for wifi, but I think this is probably quite unlikely). This means that there may not be daily updates as my regular readers have become accustomed to. Fear not though: I am planning to write each day's entry in the evening, ready for a batch upload when I get back to civilisation.
The good news is that almost every meal on the trip is included (there wont be any restaurants in the savannah so the Men will cook for us), and it is Wildebeest migration season, so I hope to see a load of them running through a river like you see on TV.
Other than that I have nothing to report, so look forward to the first real entry on or around the 31st of August, which is the day I fly out!
If you want to read up on my previous adventures in the meantime to whet your appetite, here are the links:
http://ciwtravelperu.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelvietnam.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelmadagascar.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelchina.blogspot.com
This year I will be visiting Kenya and Tanzania, for a total of 16 days (not including travel). I was initially torn between climbing up mount Kilimanjaro with minimal safari, or not doing that and instead enjoying maximal safari and a few days relaxing on Zanzibar at the end. After much deliberation I chose the latter, the 5 days of "moonscapes" (read: barren rock fields, like the moon) on the Kilimanjaro climb being the deciding factor. Plus that trip was much more expensive, presumably owing to the cost of having extra Men to carry your things.
Because this trip is maximum safari, I think I might actually be out of wifi (and quite possibly even mobile signal) range for the vast majority of the trip (I told my coworker Amy that there might be a Man whose job it is to hold up an antenna for wifi, but I think this is probably quite unlikely). This means that there may not be daily updates as my regular readers have become accustomed to. Fear not though: I am planning to write each day's entry in the evening, ready for a batch upload when I get back to civilisation.
The good news is that almost every meal on the trip is included (there wont be any restaurants in the savannah so the Men will cook for us), and it is Wildebeest migration season, so I hope to see a load of them running through a river like you see on TV.
Other than that I have nothing to report, so look forward to the first real entry on or around the 31st of August, which is the day I fly out!
If you want to read up on my previous adventures in the meantime to whet your appetite, here are the links:
http://ciwtravelperu.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelvietnam.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelmadagascar.blogspot.com
http://ciwtravelchina.blogspot.com
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