Guestblogging Swede

Hey all you Acacians!
My awesome guide Emma asked me to post something on this blog... despite the fact that I'm a Swede! So if I write something that makes no sense or manage to spell everything wrong... imagine how hard it would be to read it in Swedish :)!

I'm on the 58 days Ultimate African Overlander and we started It all in Nairobi the 26th of March. 10 persons from 4 continents. 1 Kenyan tour-guide called Kevin and our driver Letaloi.

We took off west and after a few days in western Kenya (and a gamedrive in Nakuru national park) we ended up in beautiful Uganda. Our first stop was Jinja were almost all of us went rafting (and turned red ...). The rafting was awesome, worth all the pain we all felt the day after from our burned skin.

After a few days in Jinja we took of to Kampala where we picked up 3 new passengers who were just with us for the 1 week turn to the gorillas in Bwindi rainforest.

The gorillas turned out to be easy to find... for my group. We looked for 3 minutes and there they were! The other group trakked for 2 hours in the rain. We spent 1 hour with the Nschongifamily and I almost shat myself when one of the silverbacks walked by almost touching my leg!

We spent a few days in Bwindi and Lake Buyonyi before heading back to Jinja where we dropped off the newbies again (But first we had time to do a Booze criuse, with different results...).

We started our trip back to Kenya and Nairobi where we were dropped of one of the groupmembers and Kevin, our guide! The guide we were sopose to have, Emma, had Malaria when we left so she jumped on the truck when we got back to Nairobi.

In Nairobi we also picked up 10 new people! From being a small group (with lots of legspace) we were now a big group (with not so much legspace). We left our truck and Letaloi in Nairobi and bumped (don't start thinking the roads are in European standards in Africa) our way to Maasai Mara.
The Mara was incredible and we were really lucky with leopards which seemed to be in every corner!

We also got to see lions just walking calmly on the road!

After our days in the Mara we went back to Nairobi, picked up Letaloi and the truck and left for Tanzania. Our first stop wee Arusha where we had 3 birthdays to celebrate (Corey, Hannah and Emma).

The day after we had an early start and left Letaloi again to go west.

We stopped by the Ngorongoro crater to take pictures and eat lunch with the animals aroud us. Three minutes later one of the Aussies, Simon, ws attacked by a bushpig who wanted his food!

We continued th Serengeti where we spent 2 days driving around without finding almost any animals! Well, that's what can happen when you're trying to find wild animals... they might hide! We also spent one night in the park with lions around our tents and another outside Ngorongoro with Hyenas screaming outside.

The gamedrive in Ngorongoro were better (more animals). We even got to meet 3 month old lioncubs! The last thing our group managed to do was pissing off an Elephant who started attacking us. We drove off pretty fast with blood pumping all over the place!

Back in Arusha we started our trip to Zanzibar where I'm sitting right now waiting for the fery to take us back to Mainland Tanzania and Dar es Salaam!

Zanzibar is SO beautiful and we really needed lazy days on the beach in a bed (the tents are great but It's always nice to stay in a bed.).

5 of us did the swimming with dolphins. Worth every cent! It was so amazing watching all those wild animals playing under our flippers!

Well now we're dropping of 10, 10remaining (picked up 1 new in Dar) heading for Malawi and more beachdays, AWESOME!!!

We'll see if Emma's happy with my entry and want's me to write more later! I'm off now continuing loving Arica, It's so beautiful!

See ya

Michaela