I had this nagging feeling that the end of the adventure, as detailed through these posts, was still hanging, so here's a final update.
The journey is well and truly over. Rwandair delivered us, albeit rather uncomfortably, into the early morning of Heathrow, and life has moved on. On the trip we achieved what we set out to do, nothing went wrong beyond the expected challenges of being in and travelling through Africa, and it was a great experience. We got to where we were meant to be more or less on time, met some great people and saw some wonderful sights, did not get ill, did not lose passports/money etc.
I did a rough calculation of distances covered, which includes the 'getting from A to B' but does not include the local running around of the day trips and sightseeing we managed:
- six weeks travelling
- seven countries visited (Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe (for a day), Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda)
- two more seen from the other side of the border (DR Congo and South Sudan)
- 4,732 kilometres flying (red lines on the map)
- over 3,500 kilometres by road (blue lines)
- over 890 kilometres by train (green line).
So now all we have to do is identify another part of the world and do a similar thing - watch this space.
Thanks for reading and hope we entertained you just a little!
