The Land Down Under

Our Love Affair with Australia Australia is the flattest, driest and probably deadliest inhabited continent on earth and we are in love with it.  Maybe it was the fact that we just left a country in which we had been robbed or it could be the 21 sleep deprived hours we spent locked up in…

South Africa: Cape Town

It took us a bit longer than usual to write our posts for South Africa as it was an experience that feels hard to describe and one of mixed emotions.  You can see from our Garden Route post that there is a lot of beauty in the country, a lot of great people and a…

South Africa – Cape & Garden Route

Our flight from Zanzibar to Cape Town took us through Johannesburg, or as locals call it Jo’Burg.  When we landed, we were required to collect our bags, go through customs and then re-check them for the flight to Cape Town.  After accomplishing this task – which was much more challenging than it should have been…

Zanzibar

“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” Those famous words uttered by Henry Morton Stanley were probably the reason I was most excited about going to Zanzibar.   It was Zanzibar that was at the heart of the beginning of so many explorations into the African continent, and a place intimately linked to both Dr. Livingstone’s travels and…