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On the way to Cape Town

Continuing my journey down to Cape Town, my next stop is Malawi. I got in from Karonga in the North and made my way down to Nkhata Bay. Nkhata Bay has some real beauty to it. If you come here there is one really nice hostel where all the backpackers hang out; Mayoka Village; great place, fun staff, and waking up to the lake view:

We had a walk through the village where Dennis tried to beat the locals in checkers, it didn't go as well (they had slightly different rules lets say), but was good fun. The village is small and worth checking out, people are friendly and the fish is fresh and tasty around the lake.

Most night we can see thunderstorms in the distance but great weather during the day.

When thunder storming in the distance just enjoy the nice weather with the fellow travelers:

Fly kick Photo from Nkhata Bay, Photo credit goes to Dennis Smaili:

From Nkhata bay we took a ferry to cross to Likoma Island. The ferry ride was long, uncomfortable and hot; as we had to take a small local boat there where we sat next to the bananas.
By the end we finally made it there, the ride was really worth it:

It has a great beach, a nice old church ( the only building on the island really), beautiful landscape that makes you feel that you are in the movie Gladiator, when he is about to die: 

Crime rate is apparently zero, yeah that's correct, according to the locals the last crime took place something like 20 years ago. it was quite hard to understand in the start, but when you see that there are no locks on the resort doors. Everyone is really friendly you will feel really safe. So all that together makes the island one of the most relaxed places I have been so far!  Adding to that,  electricity goes off everyday at 9pm , with the very limited connection to the outside world, which allows you to sleep early and wake up early with the birds... Perfect!

Fly kick photo in Likoma Island, Photo credit goes to Christina Ekeheien:

Africa, here we go!

Ok, so I haven’t been blogging for quite some time now. I made my way down Africa, I am currently in South Africa. Since Nepal I flew from Kathmandu to Doha in Qatar for my friend’s wedding which was quite nice (Congrats Medo!).

Afterwards I went to Kuwait for some time as my family recently moved there for my dad’s job. I haven’t seen my family for over a year.  It was really great spending some quality time with the family, and of course gaining back all the kilos I lost while trekking in Nepal, thanks to some super amazing mama food. Got the my fly kick pose near the Kuwait towers:

Photo credits go to the best dad in the world.

From Kuwait I flew in for a quick visit to Oman, then UAE, the fly kick pictures are old ones in Oman and UAE, both taken by my dad few years back. The UAE one is not the clearest but if u focus I'm the tiny jumping guy in the corner.

Inside the Sultan Mosque. Fly kick not too appropriate there, so had to improvised a bit.

 After Oman I finally made it to Africa for the first time! My first stop was Dar es Salam in Tanzania on the way to the beautiful Island of Zanzibar. The flight was from Dar to Zanzibar was a in a tiny 9-seater plane, where the captin asked one of the passenger to close the plane door before taking off. He was cool enough to allow me to sit in the copilot seat for the flight.

Zanzibar had quite a lot to offer, from sunset cruises.(Photo credit goes to Sean Busschau)

Spices tours:

 Prison Island with the turtles:

Photo credit goes to Ali 

Nice beaches for posing:

Crystal water caves:

To Stone Town markets and the Zanzibar Pizza:

I did few dives in Zanzibar and of course few poses for the camera. On one of the diving boats I met Salminah, the captin of the boat. When he heard my name is Ibrahim he asked me weather I can help with teaching kids some Arabic and Quran in his village, I have really good knowledge in both so I thought it would be a great experience.

Diving fly kick in Zanzibar photo credit goes to Eric Bruyninckx:

I taught in the tiny village of Mwanakombo, with some super focused student. Teacher Ibrahim with the students:

Before I left they had the Mawled celebrations with all the kids coming on stage and performing many different acts and dances.

I left Zanzibar and head up to Arusha where I went on a Safari game drive to Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Our group was really nice. We were five- Colombian Cristian, Danish Rasmus and Sofia, and “Serbian” Za(click)lina.

Flykicking at the "eighth world wonder" according to our guide the Crater of Ngorongoro:

Photo credit goes to Christian Byfield.

We got to see all the big five, and many more animals:
The chilling lions:

Tall giraffes:

 Massive elephants:

Buffaloes both dead and alive:

Leopards (if you focus):

Monkeys/baboons:

Impalas:

Hyenas:

Wild beasts:

More close up lions:

Hippos lake, with a small video and a flykick pose:

Photo credits go to Christian again:

Wild cats:

alot alot of Zebras:

At night in Ngorongoro we slept at a camp site where an elephant came to drink from our water tank.

We had buffalos literally right next to our tent (one if the buffalo tripped on a tent cord). The safari was a really great experience.

After our really great experience when went to a bush man village. The bush men took us on one of their hunting trips; it was quite interesting to see their methods. They got a pigeon and ate it for breakfast.

From Arusha I head up to Nairobi, Kenya. I got close and personal with some giraffes. This one was actually called Ibrahim! Small world indeed. Photo credit goes to Valerie Gall.

The elephant orphanage was worth a visit to see those tiny (kinda) elephants play around and drink from their 2L milk bottles.

I also did a day of volunteering with the kids in the slums of Nairobi. The kids always amuse with their constant smiling regardless of their situation.

After Nairobi we spent few days in Mombasa and then made my way to Kampala.
Flykicking in Naiobi  (average background; run out of time) and Mombasa, credits go to senora Thali Machado:

Camels on the beach of Mombasa:

Kampala is quite a nice. Ugandans in general are super friendly people, they are always happy and smiling. I did  some water rafting from Lake Victoria down the Nile. It was a lot of fun, our boat flipped few times which made it that much better.

I went around Kampala, and saw the national mosque, and the museum. There isn't too much to do in Kampala as a city. Flykick at Port Bell with Lake Victoria, Photo credits goes to James the smiley driver:

After finishing from Uganda I took few buses from Kampala, all the way down to Malawi, the trip took almost three days, I slept at some locals places I met along the bus ride, they were kind enough to offer me a place to stay for the night. Thanks Marco,Yahaya, and Dennis!

I am currently in South Africa, I'll be blogging about my journey from Malawi down here soon. Ciao!