You tell me. What IS there to do along the way?

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With the departure date looming and paperwork piling I've been quite busy lately (hence the lack of blog posts). Not to mention the fact that I'm trying to earn some cash on the side by building some websites. Now, with 10 days to go (supposed to be 7 days left but the guy at the travel agency who's name I won't mention *Mikael from STA Travel* messed up the booking!), I might just have enough to make it to Zambia but I'm becoming increasingly aware that I have no idea of what I'm actually gonna be doing once I get there. Sure I've got the route I drew up, but if I just hitch-hiked that, I'd be in Zambia in a week! I've gotta come up with things to do along the way to keep me occupied for about one month in each country!!

My mum's brain wave - write a blog post asking people to send in suggestions of cheap and fun things to do in each country... hmmm put myself at the mercy of the internets?! Sounds dodgy, I mean these are the kind of people that sit at home all day watching videos of  people gettin "own3d" on youtube and pictures of alcoholic cats.


 heheh anyway it's worth a try. It kind of reminds me of a travel show that used to come on discovery channel or something called The Diceman where a presenter and his cameraman would get 6 activities/places to go to chosen by random people they met along the way and decide which they'd do by rolling a green die.

So if anyone has any suggestions or tips please send them in! You can either post them in the comments section or email them to me at: bwana_shmane [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk


btw I'm considering shedding my winter hair (it went down to -32 C here!) to do a time lapse video kind of like this. What do you think?

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  1. JanelleJanuary 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    man. just get on the road. there will be PLENTY to do and see. you know how africa is. life happens when you're least expecting it. don't plan ahead. anyway. bed here on ngorobob hill! x janelle

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  2. bwana_shmaneJanuary 10, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    heheh ye maybe you're right. I'm becoming too Swedish! Just don't want to end up missing anything too important :)

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