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I’d been in Cape Town for two weeks beforehand, just remotely working and doing some sightseeing around the area. So I had plenty of time for prep for the trip and was pretty relaxed arriving at Ashanti Logde(where the trip starts). The trip was booked through African Budget Safari’s which seemed to the cheapest option around. The dates I had originally planned to travel with(and booked) were unavailable and ABS happily changed my dates and gave me a heavy discount(about 25%). On top of that I declined the free activities in Cape Town, so I was given free upgrade at Ashanti to my own room. So I can definitely recommend African Budget Safari’s as an agent and also chance your arm and see what discounts you can get. ...

So, for the last 6 weeks I’ve been over-landing from Cape Town to Nairobi. I decided to ditch almost all of my tech for the trip. My Samsung Galaxy S3 and my Thinkpad were replaced with an old school phone and a notepad. I also picked up a tiny little Sandisk Sansa Clip MP3 player for the trip. For reading I had my Kindle and a few USB keys for storing files and for Portableapps(which was a disaster I’ll write about another time). The decision for ditching was simply a need to be away from the tech and connectedness. I’m in Africa for a reason, and I simply didn’t want the constant distractions a phone brings me. I couldn’t help but notice on the way others were clamouring for internet when they thought it was an option. I appreciated having that option. Anyway, as a result I have a lot of time to write with the long journeys during the day and frankly I wish I had more information on the trip to see where the land lies before starting, so I figured I write this blog to give others a heads up and I’ve split things up into each destination. Here’s the skinny on countries I hit ...