Countdown for Africa

Hi Folks, from Col & Alison and eldest son Nat.

Preparations are well under way for Nat and I to leave for Sudan on March 20. Alison will be holding the ropes at home, while we travel to Sudan to assist our friends in their mission work.

We've had our jabs at the Travel Doctor, bought a rucksack each, and started filling them..Tools, medication, information...The 20kg limit is aproaching rapidly!












Africa Inland Mission (AIM int.) will help us on our way to the ACROSS base in Southern Sudan, just above the border junction of D.R. Congo and
Uganda, at a town called Yei.






We fly from Adelaide to Sydney, then via Bangkok to Nairobi (Kenya), where we hope to catch up with a friend, before taking a bus to Kampala (Uganda) where we hope to stay with AIM for a day or to before continuing north and over the Sudan border to Yei.

We have not yet decided on whether to fly Kampala to Yei, which is hits our budget hard, or whether to bus it again. The bus is cheap, uncomfortable, insecure.... but crosses the Nile twice, and lets us experience the real Africa, how the locals live. Our friends in Yei have used the bus and don't seem to bothered by its problems...only warning that if the wet season has started by then we may well be bogged for a night, and on the other hand, if it's dry ... we had better be prepared for breathing a lot of dust!

On the way home, we get back to Kampala then fly Nairobi, Hongkong, Adelaide