Pre-Safari, two months out

Hi Everyone
Unless you've been living under a rock, or don't know us at all (welcome), you would know that Manda and myself will be heading to Africa in a little under two months. I've created this new blog to capture our adventures, even though it's part of my global adventures, they are no longer only my adventures.

So, a little about our upcoming trip. We fly out of Perth on March 14th at pretty much midnight with South Africa Airways direct to Johannesburg. From there, we transfer to another SAA flight straight up to Nairobi, Kenya. Our first official destination. After a night and a day of recovering from what I anticipate to be about 24 hours of travel door to door, we join our Intrepid tour - "Gorillas to Vic Falls". The route map for our tour is obviously on the right. The tour goes for 39 days and is mostly camping in tents, which we'll have to put up and take down nearly every day. The entire tour is overland in a 4WD bus.

As you can see, we are going to some pretty special places with highlights such as: trekking the mountain gorillas "in the mist" in Uganda/Rwanda, visiting the famous Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater, visiting the spice island of Zanzibar, visiting Lake Malawi and finally ending at the "smoke that thunders", Victoria Falls.

At the end of our tour, we'll be spending an extra day or two at Victoria Falls. Nothing planned as yet but we may venture into Botswana for a visit to the Chobe National Park and then finally flying back to Johannesburg around Anzac Day for a couple of final days of relaxation before flying back to Perth.

We will endeavour to update this blog as we go but obviously power will be hard to come by at some points along our trip and internet probably even more scarce.

Hope you can join us and have fun following our African Safari.
All the best,
Dave & Manda