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  - Central Africa
    - Democratic Republic of the Congo
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    - Botswana
    - Malawi
    - Mozambique
    - Namibia
    - South Africa
    - Zambia
    - Zimbabwe
  - West Africa
    - Benin
    - Sierra Leone
  - North Africa
    - Morocco
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  - Vietnam
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Gorilla

Independent Travel Travelling by yourself in Africa can be extremely rewarding. Having the freedom to go where you want and when you want is awesome. But it is harder. It requires effort. It's the type of travel that challenges you. And I like a challenge. Public transport, can be very cheap so you will save a lot of cash travelling this way. Plus it really exposes you to every day African life. But it can sometimes be a bit of a pain getting to the exact place you want to go. Tours take you door to door. Public transport takes you to the bus station and then you still need to make your way to your accommodation from there. But that's part of the fun. Let me tell you a little story, if I may... I took a tour to South Luangwa in Zambia from Lilongwe in Malawi. To get there, it was 7 hours in a comfortable safari jeep. However, I needed to be back in Lilongwe for a flight, so I had to leave the tour a day early and travel back by public transport. What can only be described as a 'disco bus' picked me up whilst it was still dark at 5.30am (as arranged by the bar man at the camp). I had someone's baby on my knee for part of the journey, whilst loud techno music blasted through the cramped mini bus - the whole God damn way. The bus dropped me off at a bus station near to the border, the driver pointed towards a jumble of cars and said it was the taxi rank. Ok... From the licence plate, I could tell they were actual taxis, so I crammed in with 6 others (a lady was sat on my knee) and we drove to the border. Passport stamped, I walked across, found another taxi (equally as cramped this time) which dropped me off at the mini bus station on the Malawi side. Once I'd managed to find the right bus and waited for it to fill up, we were off (sans disco this time). At every police check point, they made me get off (just me, no-one else - I was the only foreigner on the bus), had a quick (friendly) look through my bag, smiled and waved us on - confident I wasn't running drugs. 12 hours after leaving, I found myself back in Lilongwe. See the difference?

Getting Slapped By a Gorilla in Rwanda

Our eyes locked. The gorilla stared at me intently, I knew I was supposed to look away, be…

July 26, 2013

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Happy #worldwildlifeday ❤️🦍🐆🦒🐘🦏

Happy #worldwildlifeday ❤️🦍🐆🦒🐘🦏🦓❤️
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Celebrating the animals of some of my favourite national parks in Africa today, in no particular order:

🌍 Bwindi Inpenetrable Forest, Uganda
🌍 Chobe National Park, Botswana
🌍 South Luangwa National Park, Zambia
🌍 Khwai Concession, Botswana
🌍 Etosha National Park, Namibia
🌍 Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
🌍 Okavango Delta, Botswana
🌍 Liwonde National Park, Malawi
🌍 Kruger National Park, South Africa
🌍 Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Thanks to @vanislandborn for the gorilla pic, taken on the Rock My Uganda, Rwanda & DRC Adventure 2018 ❤️

GRATITUDE ❤️💫🌈 ........ I just wanted to

GRATITUDE ❤️💫🌈
........
I just wanted to take some time today to say thank you. Thank you to all of you who follow my journeys in Africa and around the world - even though I’m shit at Instagram and hardly ever post! Thank you to all of you who read my blog and make it what it is. Thank you to all the people who I’ve met on my travels. To those who were best friends for a day or two - thanks for the adventures!! Thank you to those who have become friends for life no matter what distance is between us (you know who you are). And thank you to those who taught me some valuable life lessons along the way. Thank you especially to the hundreds of people who have put their trust in me to take them on trips through Africa, there are a lot of companies to choose from, so thank you for choosing @rockmyadventure 🙏🏻. Thank you to the universe for allowing me to have the most amazing adventures in faraway places that I now hold dear in my ❤️ and thanks in advance for being able to do that again someday (soon I hope). But universe, thanks for also giving me an opportunity to slow down, rest and reset. My mind and body really needed it. Health is more important than wealth - that I know for sure. And a special thank you to all the wonderful people in my life who make coming home just as awesome as going away. Just felt like telling you that today. 🥰🥰🥰

The Time I Dressed In Traditional Maasai Clothing

The Time I Dressed In Traditional Maasai Clothing - Cultural Appropriation vs Cultural Appreciation

Today on the blog, I’m telling the story of the time I dressed in traditional Maasai clothing in Kenya 🇰🇪

I’m looking at the fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. This is to open the conversation. Please read before judging. 🙏🏻 Link in bio.

Happy World Zebra Day from me and this little cuti

Happy World Zebra Day from me and this little cutie! ❤️🦓

My favourite colour is #rainbow 🌈 (in case you

My favourite colour is #rainbow 🌈 (in case you hadn’t guessed already)! 📸 @africaandwild

✨ANNOUNCING✨ So excited to say that I am tea

✨ANNOUNCING✨

So excited to say that I am teaming up with my friend, Sabina of @girlvsglobe to launch the @rockmyadventure tour to... MALAWI! 🇲🇼

Both Sabina and I are absolutely in ❤️ with Malawi and we cannot wait to share our love of this incredible country with YOU!

This trip will be epic, taking us to some of Malawi’s most incredible destinations - we’ll immerse ourselves in nature on safari in Liwonde National Park, visit the hilltop town of Livingstonia, experience the beauty and tranquility of Lake Malawi and, spend time in rural Ruarwe! 🐘

If you’ve been to Malawi with me before, you’ll see that these are totally different locations to the Rock My Malawi, Zambia & Botswana Adventure (except for Lilongwe 😉).

On the trip, Sabina will be offering Instagram & YouTube tips 📸 and I will be offering daily yoga and meditation sessions 🧘🏻‍♀️(all optional).

Sabina and I have a really similar outlook on travel - with a sustainable, experiential, fun, grassroots, and down-to-earth approach to our adventures! So that’s exactly what you’re going to get from this trip! 🙏🏻

To find out more, click the link in my bio! Hope to meet you in Malawi! 🌍 xx

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