Peering into Earths Fiery belly at Mount Yasur, Vanuatu. “The View from the mountain top was fantastic. “Stop, yes stand there”, Beate said as we walked along the rim of the caldera. Asle tried to make a relaxed pose. But just as the camera clicked, a thunderous boom came from the bottom of the crater, and we could feel the ground shake. Startled, Asle turned around to see a massive spray of red glowing lava bombs rising up just behind him. A plume of black smoke followed, and realizing she still had the camera up, Beate pressed the button.”

It was pitch black when we disembarked the cargo ship at Seghe, a tiny town in the remote Marovo Lagoon. We had no idea if the owner of the lodge on the isolated island we planned to stay on had received our message and if he would be here to pick us up. As the other passengers scattered and disappeared into the night, and only a few local people were left on the small pier, we realized we were on our own. It was very late, and we would have to find transport to our little paradise island somehow, or a place to stay the night.

Follow our movements on this regularly updated map of our travel route.

Rio is one of the most famous cities in South America, and well deserved. The combination of the exuberance of it’s fourteen million strong population of music-loving street-partying inhabitants, and the city’s stunning setting amid the crisp beaches and azure waters of the Guanabara bay, makes this vibrant city a unique travel destination. Take a look at some photos from our visit to Brazil’s Cidade Maravilhosa.

Around Lake Eyasi in Tanzania lies the ancient homeland of the Hadzabe people. Their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, mostly unchanged for tens of thousands of years, provides a rare glimpse into how all humans have lived for most of our existence on Earth. We first met them in a cave in the early morning. The sun wasn’t up yet, and already they were preparing for a moring hunt – by smoking big pipes of weed.

It’s hard to believe it’s been over eighteen months since we returned home after a year on the road. It’s been a busy year and a half, and sadly our blog has suffered. But it is time to dust it off and give it new life! We’ve barely scratched the surface of all the stories, pictures and videos we have from our travels, and have some interesting travel plans for the near future, so there’s not much chance we’ll run out of stories to tell anytime soon!

Steven got out a torch, and searched the plains. “There! Two lions.” “Should I go get the car?”, Andrea asked. When he came back, he had a smart look on his face. “Well, listen. We could go out and look at the lions … or we could go back and watch the leopard I just saw by my bungalow”… Read the story about our two week exploration of Zambia’s Kafue National Park, one of the most beautiful and unspoilt wildernesses we’ve seen in Africa, as we alternate between bush tenting and luxury lodging “colonial-style”.

After a few days in Mbeya, we continued to Malawi and spent the next few weeks travelling south along the massive Lake Malawi, stopping at some beautiful lakeside resorts and charming towns on our way down. During that time we made a lot of new friends, travellers as well as locals, and we fell completely in love with this wonderful place and its charming people. Easy to see why it’s called the warm heart of Africa.

“Suddenly Alfred signalled to us to stop, the trackers had located the Gorillas not far from where we were. The excitement moved like a quiet wave through the group. Leaving everything behind except our cameras, we slowly and in complete silence made our way towards them. Then we saw him. Sitting peacefully between the bushes quietly eating leaves, was the unmistakable black and silvery back of a silverback Gorilla.” Join us as we go on an exclusive and unforgettable trek deep into the misty jungles of Rwanda to end up face to face with the mighty Mountain Gorilla.

Deep in the misty jungles of Rwanda live one of our closest evolutionary cousin and one of the most elusive and magnificent creatures on earth. Join us on as we go on on an exclusive and unforgettable trek to end up face to face with the mighty Mountain Gorilla.

Lake Natron in Tanzania is is an important breeding ground for millions of lesser flamingos. The drive there took us on a long and dusty road in the ancient landscape of the great Rift Valley, passing volcanoes and calderas in some of the most dramatic scenery we’ve seen.

On the outskirts of Nairobi lies the old farmhouse that once belonged to Danish aristocrat Karen Blixen. Now a museum, you can walk around the lovely rooms and the garden and really feel like you’ve travelled back in time, to colonial “British East Africa”.