Malawi
October 21-25, 2014
Sometimes referred to as ‘Calendar Lake’ because it’s approximately 365 miles long and nearly 52 miles wide, Lake Malawi is known for a couple of things; one being its sheer size and two being that it is home to the most species of fish of any lake in the world. And after our visit there, it’s also famous for its lake flies.
We spent four nights in Malawi at two different, but equally beautiful, campsites. We had the opportunity to visit a local village and relax at our lakeside campgrounds with the group.
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Zanzibar, Tanzania
October 17-19, 2014
I’ll start by giving a little history of this beautiful country. Tanzania was known as ‘Tanyanika’ until 1964, when it was united with Zanzibar. The country was then re-named The United Republic of Tanzania, which explained the name of Lake Tanyanika, one of Africa’s great lakes. Lake Tanyanika is the longest lake in the world, second deepest and bordered by four countries; Burundi, Congo (Democratic Republic), Tanzania, and Zambia. Africa is an amazing place. Chris, our G Adventures CEO, was a wealth of knowledge on everything Africa and fortunately for us, he shared this knowledge.
Nungwi Beach, northern Zanzibar
Serengeti National Park & Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
October 15-17, 2014
Serengeti National Park with G Adventures
I will never forget the initial descent down into the Serengeti after paying our park entrance fees. All you could see for hundreds of miles was what looked like dry grass that hadn’t seen water in months until it met the dark, greenish-grey clouds of the horizon; and although you couldn’t see them with the naked eye, thousands upon thousands of different species of wildlife, some of which wouldn’t hesitate for a second to have you for dinner.
Serengeti NP
To provide some context before getting into our Africa posts, we’ve included the below map to show our route through East Africa with G Adventures. This map shows our route from Nairobi to Livingstone. From Livingstone, we left our tour group and flew south to Cape Town. For our fellow Canadians, the distance travelled is equivalent to driving from St. John’s, NL to Winnipeg, MB.
Map from G Adventures website, a tremendous resource for planning your African adventure.
Nairobi, Kenya
October 11-13, 2014
Once the Captain turned on the seatbelt sign and announced our descent into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, he also turned on the butterflies in our stomachs. In four short hours we had gone from the glitz and glamour of Dubai to the grit and chaos of Nairobi. We were nervous, but prepared. Not just for Nairobi, but the for the upcoming 26-day journey that would take us some 5,300 kilometres, mostly over land, mostly in tents, south to Cape Town.
South Nairobi, away from the traffic!
The Killing Fields at Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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