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I have updated Senegals various projects in the projects page, except CSRP, which I will get to shortly. Within the next few days we hope to have a better internet connection and will update the stats page and the pictures. We have stack to put up. Lastly we have updated our thank you page, the [...]

Mauritania has one amazing thing going for it. About 30% of its coastline is all declared a national park, and it is definitely one of the more amazing bits of the country to go a visit.
It was the first time Miso had even driven on the beach, and we were treated to quite a spectacular [...]

We decided to get our car insurance for Mauritania to avoid any underhanded dodgy deals at the border. And a good thing we did because the border officials seemed to love money and generally they tried their best to get their hands on as much of ours as possible. After handling all the border formalities [...]

Our month in Senegal was one of the most tiring thus far. We though it couldn’t get more busy than Benin, but we were wrong.  It was not just the running around, school lectures, interviews, diving, filming, sickness, but the cost of living in Dakar really added some extra-unwanted stress.  Dakar is cruelly expensive, for [...]

Linda and I have somewhat recovered from our few days of misery and are finally ready to head back down the dusty road to Mauritania. We have been so busy in Dakar and a few days of rest will be welcome. As our time was coming to an end we met some fantastic people working [...]

Well my recovery from Malaria has been rather slow, but the good news is I am well on my way to been 100% again. The worst part was sitting in bed while Linda and my dad were scuba diving and filming awesome reefs. Unfortunately as Murphy’s law would have it, the cameras started playing games again, just we we [...]

Sooner or later something will not go according to plan. We left Dakar to go to Goree Island where a famous South African who played an influential role in ANC underground meetings during the Apartheid era resides. Unfortunately Breyton Breytenbach was away when we arrived, but we left a present for him and went to [...]