Walkabout - The long way home

First of all sorry for the 2 weeks of no news - island life is great for many different things (mainly relaxing), but one thing it is not good for is internets! Especially Zanzibar, which has had no electricity for over 2 months now! So where am I now??? In Dar Es Salaam, just got back from Zanzibar this morning! Lamu was fantastic.. really the best place I've been so far by a long way! Zanzibar was more beautiful in the classic sense.. but Lamu had more style and was less commercialized (at least where we stayed). For the first few days in Lamu we did get hawked a couple of times a day by captains offering dhow trips.. but it's such a small town, that they all recognized us after the 3rd day! The predominance of Islam on the island does however mean that there are only about 2 places (in the Lamu town itself) to get a drink, one is called roof top bar, the other is at the police canteen! On our 1st day we went there for a beer there and ended up eating, then playing vo...

I just thought I'd write a quick post to say I'm off in a couple of hours! Barely got any sleep last night I was so excited! Btw I decided (after careful consideration) to let my brother sheer my winter coat - more practical: Maybe I should have left it with just the sides shaved? Heheh It was the biggest size on the clippers :S  Anyway, better get to packing. Will write again from Nairobi!

I've managed to work out how to draw my route on a google map. It's very rough, but it gives you (and me!) an idea of where I might be going.  View African Walkabout in a larger map If I get enough time at a computer along the way I'll try and add another of these showing where I ended up going to show the importance of being flexible.

      This is my first blog and was initially just going to be the story of the trip I’m going to take - getting from home in Sweden to home in Zambia with a shoestring budget and a couple of months to kill before uni starts. Somewhere in the many vague discussions I’ve had with people about this trip someone suggested that, if I’m going to do something stupid, I should at least use it to raise money for a good cause.       With stories of every man and his dog sailing solo around the world, and scaling Everest, I thought backpacking alone through Africa would be kinda easy. Then again with my complete lack of experience, money or any sense of direction I’m bound to run into adventures (problems) along the way. I’ve decided to skip the European countries and flying straight into Kenya and walk/hitch-hike/cycle/what ever it takes to get down to Zambia!         So if you want to read stories of beautiful sunsets and mis...