Backpacking in Africa Jonny Blair
“I get so high, I just can’t feel it” – Noel Gallagher. On the same trip, by default and odd African ruleballs, we ended up in Kigali FOUR TIMES. Yes, and despite that peculiarity, we really only had 2 nights and 2 days here! We loved our time in lofty Kigali, Rwanda’s capital and a Read more about Backpacking in Rwanda: Exploring Kigali, the Up and Coming Capital[…]
I love a crazy animal adventure on my travels, and strangely most of them seem to have occurred in Africa! There was the time I fed hyenas mouth to mouth in Harar, Ethiopia. Then the time I went on safari with Shadows of Africa in Tanzania. Then the time I stroked crocodiles in the Gambia. Read more about Backpacking in Kenya: Kissing and Feeding Giraffes Near Nairobi[…]
“Two Eagle Dark please” – Random American Tourist in Uganda. It might seem ridiculous to some that we spent three nights in the city of Entebbe and cumulatively five days, but, look, life throws us up curveballs and with overland buses so slow, it was time to chill out on our last two days in Read more about Backpacking in Uganda: Two Eagle Dark and Our Stay At Sunbird Backpackers in Entebbe[…]
“All those people gathered there – in Zaire, in Zaire. To see the rumble in the jungle there – in Zaire, in Zaire” – Johnny Wakelin. The dream for me on my first ever visit to the famous Congo jungle in deepest Africa was to get into the deep parts of the jungle in the Read more about Insanity in The Democratic Republic of Congo🇨🇩: Mwepu Ilunga, Benik Afobe and Why We Didn’t Do The Gorilla Tour[…]
“The river of dreams” – Billy Joel. A childhood dream was lived in April 2019, as I backpacked to the spot where the world’s longest river, the Nile, begins. Starting its journey in the town of Jinja, Uganda, it winds its way right down to the Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria in Egypt being one departure city Read more about Backpacking in Uganda: Visiting The Source of The Nile River in Jinja[…]
Burundi’s former capital city, Bujumbura threw up yet another oddball on our 2019 East African adventure. This country was less than obvious addition to the schedule. A tough visa process, a country bereft of tourists and indeed a country which prompted a good friend of mine to comment “I’ve never even heard of that country”. Read more about Backpacking in Burundi: Our Wonderful Stay at Urban Lodge in Bujumbura[…]
** THIS IS MY REAL ARTICLE. DO NOT ACCEPT FAKES LIKE VANESSA LEE (FAKE NAME FROM “TUMBLR”) WHO HAS STOLEN IT. YOU ARE GOING TO POLICE AND THEN TO COURT. Burundi baby! We stayed at the Urban Lodge Hotel in Bujumbura in Burundi and during our short time there, we also visited the gorgeous Lake Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Bars and Cafes I Visited in Burundi[…]
Togoville is a lakeside town in southern Togo, lying on the northern shore of Lake Togo which we visted as part of our trip to Togo and Benin in 2018. It was originally known as Togo, then Togoville and later of course is how the country of Togo took its name. Togo took its name Read more about Backpacking in Togo🇹🇬: Touring Togoville and the Shrine to Pope John Paul II[…]