Kenya is the country to visit if one wants to experience truly African landscape. This beautiful land of rich topography is the home of thousands of species of wild animals, most of which living in freedom, that is not fenced anyhow. Vast golden savannas, rocky mountains covered by jungle, even pine forests resembling our Polish ‘Bory Tucholskie’. When traversing the country from the bumpy dusty main national road, every kilometer or so there are big herds of cattle, sheep and goats. Among them one tiny, bright red dot is moving. This is the masai shepherd.
Wild side of Tanzania
The mainland of this vast county differs hugely from the slow and sleepy Zanzibar. We narrowed our choice to the Ngorongoro crater and Tarangire National Park. We decided to skip the famous Serengeti National Park, because the great Wildebeest migration had already wondered off (although all the Tanzania’s safari agencies claimed otherwise). We decided to catch up with them Kenia’s Masai Mara.
Vicky falls
Mh, that is some amount of water purring just meters from you*. Raining cats and dogs in a kilometer radius, if you want to take a picture of the falls themselves expect to be drenched. Actually, it is hardly possible to take out the camera. We had to work out a system with plastic bag wrapped around the camera and pet-bottle extensions for the lenses 
June 12, 2010
Give me 5, the Big 5 !
We rented a car, attached to it a South Africa flag, and headed for a 3-day safari in the famous Kruger’s National Park. We well blended in the crowd of South Africans escaping the world cup. They usually begun their conversation in Africaan language, thinking we’re one of them. This was a funny experience and I must admit Africaan (historically based on Dutch) is quite understandable if you speak German.
May 24, 2010
Koalas and Kangaroos in Adelaide
Next stop was Adelaide, where we were hosted by Hung and Tam in their house in the green suburbs. We were also greeted by 8 month old Bella, their small girl always curious about everything around her. With Bella, we had our crash course on how it might be being a parent. Did not so bad!
May 20, 2010
Giant Potato Cod
Great Barrier Reef diving safari from Cairns was, as the name suggests, great. Definitely the best underwater sites I’ve seen so far. Hard to name all the fish, corals, sponges and creatures that live there; just have a glimpse at the pics. Read the rest of this entry »
May 16, 2010
The land of Kiwis
New Zeeland welcomed us with a cold breeze. At least that’s how it felt after the warmth of Fijian beaches.
April 12, 2010
Tikal’s pyramids and falling mokeys
In El Remate, a small city which serves as base-camp for Tical, we met Adam and Greg – the first visitors on our RTW! It was a huge change for us. They came with their own car that, although registered for as many as five people, usually carried no more than five people! Read the rest of this entry »
April 7, 2010
Amazing Cascades and Scary Spiders
Somewhere in the middle of Guatemala, there is a beautiful place called Semuc Champey. It is surrounded by hills covered with thick forests, cut by clean and refreshing rivers, and drilled by mysterious caves inhabited by thousands of bats. There were also scary spider-like creatures in one of these caves, which made Marta stay at home, of course. But probably the most amazing place was the series of several calm cascades with pools of crystal clear water in between. Marta was exploring their underwater part (she is still addicted to diving). I was admiring the interesting engineering design of Nature – most of the river water was actually passing under the pools, forming a 300m long bridge!
April 1, 2010
Dry and boring facts on diving by Maciek, the genuine nerd
1) It is not the tropical forests that form the “lungs of our planet”. It is the oceans – 70% of oxygen is created there.