Coming to Africa people have different expectations of what they really want to see and hope to see as they go on Safari. For some it’s the big cats and for others it’s the Big 5 or maybe its Giraffes and Zebra’s.
Read MoreThe Spice Loop Soundtrack
I thought you might appreciate another slice of musical life on the truck as we travel!
Read MoreThe Road South
Kivi Milimani Hotel, Nairobi, Sunday 9th October 2011, 6.00pm.
Now we had been discussing the oncoming change of the group, the route and the crew for a couple of days before we arrived back in Nairobi.
Read MoreYou're a Goose
Traveling in close quarters on a truck and sharing dorms with 9 other strangers is an interesting time, we have both traveled before and done the hostelling thing but that was a while ago.
Read MoreSaidia Orphanage
As part of our overland tour we stopped off at one of the charities our tour company support, it is the first time I have visited an orphanage. It was a strange feeling, being surrounded by around 60 children who are all unwanted or mistreated by there parents and abandoned. Try and get your head around that, the people who bring you into this world leave you, abandoned and alone, and we are not just talking about teenagers but children as young as 1! I still cannot get my head around it!
Read MoreJamii Bora
I have been interested and involved with Microfinance (MF) for some years now. It all started in 2008 when I attended a lecture at a Wall Street firm that had brought two peers of MF to its offices. Muhammad Yunus, seen as the godfather of MF, from Bangladesh and founder of Grameen Bank and Ingrid Munro, the godmother or ‘Mama’ of Kenyan MF and Founder of Jamii Bora.
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