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Follow us on our world tour
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Sunday, November 24th – Tuesday, November 26th World Tour Days 22 – 24 On the 16th overland tour day we kicked it off with a full day drive from Nairobi, Kenya to Arusha, Tanzania where we spent the night at a campground with a pool. Tanzania is a large country so we had many long driving days in order to get to the places we wanted to see. The following day was a 7 hour drive finally making it to the Serengeti National Park. Nick and I did an afternoon game drive through the park, slowly making our way to…
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Saturday, November 16th – Saturday, November 23rd World Tour Days 14 – 21 We kicked off our next overland tour day with a 6 hour drive we made it to our campsite next to Lake Bunyonyi, Uganda where we spent the next 3 nights. Our first morning had a 4:30am wake up call for our Uganda highlight activity, gorilla trekking. We had to split up into two groups, one that could hike the typical 3-4 hours one way it takes through the jungle to get to the gorillas, and a group that due to age or medical reasons needed to…
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Tuesday, November 12th – Friday, November 15th World Tour Days 10-13 The 4th day on our overland tour started with a 12 hour drive from Kenya to Uganda. We stopped at a huge tea plantation in Kenya, and made our way through border control, which was relatively smooth. As we made our way to our camp for the night outside of Jinja City there were so many children chasing the truck, smiling and waving. This was followed by another 13 hour driving day, passing metal sheets set up to collect insects at night, children pushing tires with sticks, and outdoor…
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Saturday, November 9th – Monday, November 11th World Tour Days 7-9 After our free days in Nairobi Nick, our friends Chloe and Alex, who will be joining us for our 57 day overland truck tour of Africa, and I made our way to the hotel where our tour would start from. We will be in a truck with other travelers journeying from Nairobi, Kenya all the way to Cape Town, South Africa. We have our own lockers for our bags, we spend most nights in canvas tents, we get 3 meals a day, and just need to help clean up…