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Day 9: Kampala, Uganda - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 9 - The group are in disarray due to the news about the gorilla permits.

Day 1: Nairobi, Kenya - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: This trip was three years in the making before September 11th set things back another six months. The good news is the extra ...

Day 36: Dar Es Salaam to Iringa, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 36 - Natasha and Jason drop the bombshell that they are deserting the truck. Our distraught tour leader wails 'This is ...

Day 10: Kampala to Jinja, Uganda - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 10 - The trucks are no longer running in parallel as one group sets off for the gorilla trek and the other onto Jinja.

India: Kerala - Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems

Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems: A sedate cruise through the Keralan backwaters, the 'Hugging Mother' roadshow and a talented, fortune-telling parakeet ...

Swakopmund to Maltahöhe, Namibia - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Tom narrowly averts catastrophe by putting his rally driving expertise into practise on the world's best maintained gravel ...

Day 37: Iringa, Tanzania to Chitimba, Malawi - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 37 - The group are excited by the prospect of crossing into a new country, while Ed and Sue contemplate if they have a ...

Kimberley to Uppington, South Africa - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: AK47s, Armageddon, four minute instant skin cancer and an attempted conversion to the Islamic faith using a wholesome fish ...

Nkhata Bay to Mzuzu, Malawi - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: After leaving the truck, Sue and Ed have to come to grips with taking local transport. But Sue feels like she's seen more of ...

Day 23: Nairobi, Kenya to Arusha, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 23 - Three truck mates leave in Nairobi and three new truck mates replace them.

Day 35: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 35 - Not everyone in the group are overjoyed at being reunited on the truck as it does not take long for reality to set ...

Lilongwe to Blantyre via Zomba - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Sue discovers the etiquette for stowing your live chicken aboard a Malawian bus, but she's a little uncertain when it comes ...

Gweru, Zimbabwe - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Tom metamorphises into Joy Adamson as he walks with lions in the bush, while Sue investigates why Zimbabwean men are ...

Day 3: Crescent Island, Kenya - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 3 - The group go on their first excursion to Crescent Island.

Blantyre, Malawi to Harare, Zimbabwe - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Concerned out the danger to travelers in unsettled Zimbabwe, Sue relies on information from other travelers and the safety in ...

Cape Town, South Africa - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Coaxed up Table Mountain by the lure of chocolate, Penny spent a sobering hour within the Langa township and caught the ferry ...

Day 34: Stone Town, Zanzibar Island to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania ...

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 34 - The Village People were right - it's fun to stay at the YMCA!

Day 16: Kisoro, Uganda - Big Brother's African Brother

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 16 - The group experience a rough drive to Kisoro on the Uganda, Rwanda border.

Sri Lanka: West and South Coast - Hikkaduwa, Galle & Ambalangoda ...

Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems: Squalid train travel, wailing blind beggars, the baby milk scam and lolling on the beach. The Taylors finally make it ...

Day 29: Lushoto to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - Big Brother's African ...

Big Brother's African Brother: Day 29 - Ed and Sue are reprimanded by the tour leader (Big Brother) for openly carrying a Lonely Planet guide in public.

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