Southern Kenya

Southern Kenya

Southern Kenya is famous for the Maasai Mara. This is the National Reserve (shared with Tanzania) that is home to the massive wildebeest migration that you’ve probably seen on a nature documentary or at the very least in the Lion King. This phenomenon where...
Northern Tanzania

Northern Tanzania

Home to the mighty Serengeti and other popular national parks, Northern Tanzania is one of the world’s premier safari destinations. But given that safaris are a bit pricey for a full time traveler, I wasn’t looking for one. But sometimes the safari finds...
Central Tanzania

Central Tanzania

Northern Tanzania’s animals and Southern Tanzania’s mountains, make these the parts of the country that you may have heard of. I didn’t know much about Central Tanzania. And neither did Google Maps or Maps.me. What would I find?     Even...
Southern Tanzania

Southern Tanzania

When I was researching things to do in Tanzania the results were nothing but safaris. Safaris’ range from expensive to very expensive. As a long term bicycle tourer these were out of the question. But I had a feeling, that even without the typical Tanzanian...
Northern Malawi

Northern Malawi

Lake Malawi is the country’s biggest draw. And Malawi’s biggest feature as it takes up nearly a third of the country’s surface area. And yet the call of the Malawan mountains had kept me from it for my time in the Southern and Central thirds of the...