Tag Archives: africa overland

OUR AFRICA OVERLAND STATISTICS

  HELLO + WELCOME to a special post where we wrap up our Africa overland statistics. It’s a bit of fun for us to look back over the stats and think about the journey. Let’s go!…     AFRICA OVERLAND ROUTE   :: From South Africa to the top of Egypt. We then shipped out […]

IT’S THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via the length of the African continent. It’s Kirsty writing today.         Today was the day we would reach the top of Africa (!!!!!!!) … and sort arrangements to get to Europe.   Port Said was our last stop. At first […]

THE FERRY FROM SUDAN TO EGYPT

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, overland across Africa. It’s Kirsty here and today I’m writing about taking the ferry from Sudan to Egypt, one of the most memorable days in Africa.     6AM. Ferry day had arrived! We had been in Wadi Halfa waiting for this day and the […]

WHEN GARETH BECAME AN HONORARY WOMAN FOR THE DAY

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, via Africa. It’s Kirsty writing today. Let’s go…     We arrived in Wadi Halfa our final port of call in Sudan or a blisteringly hot day. Which is to say it felt like any other day in Sudan. Our fixer for the ferry […]

LUCKIEST PEOPLE IN SUDAN

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive from Sydney to London, across the length of Africa. It’s Kirsty writing today.       A question that had taken residency in my mind for weeks, if not years, was: How will we exit Sudan? There were no roads open between Sudan and Egypt to travellers. So, our […]

Lalibela + The Tunnel Of Hell

  HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London, overland through Africa. It’s Kirsty here.     Lalibela was a mystery to us both. Home to one of the most significant religious sites in the world we weren’t sure what to expect. What we found sent tingles up the spine. We […]

TRACKING ETHIOPIAN WOLVES

HELLO + WELCOME as we make our way from Sydney to London, overland through Africa. It’s Kirsty here today writing about our time tracking Ethiopian Wolves in the Bale Mountains. We skidded into the border town between Kenya and Ethiopia to find the Kenyan custom guy taking a two hour lunch. This kind of thing […]

NO, REALLY, CANCEL YOUR PLANS

HELLO + WELCOME as we attempt to drive from Sydney to London in our trusty old LandCruiser. It’s Kirsty writing today.     When we first entered Kenya our plan was to drive to the Masai Mara National Park, Nairobi and then North towards Ethiopia within a week. All of those plans changed when G […]

SICK IN KENYA

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive up from Sydney to London. It’s Gareth here today. Well, it was bound to happen. One of us would get sick in Africa and true to fashion it was me.       It was about 12pm by the time we reached the border town of Busia in Eastern Kenya. […]

WE ARE HONOURED

  HELLO + WELCOME as we drive through East Africa on our journey from Australia to Europe. It’s Kirsty here today writing about our first days in Rwanda; the tenth country of the trip.     After the Serengeti things looked went this: A packed ferry. A carpark camp. A bustling mining town. Spotting a rapper […]