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The Photo Montage

Its been one hell of a trip and i'm so happy that mattie and Jared gave me a call on that fateful christmas day! Thanks guys! Also thank you to everyone that has given us feedback on the blog, its been awesome hearing from all of you! Mattie and I are now in Belgrade on our way to Holland, and Jared is struggling to get a schengen visa in London.

Enjoy the pics, its been real!

(feel free to add in your own cheesy montage sountrack, push play now)

Oh... Just checked what this looks like when its published and saw that the captions are squashed... badly. Sorry about that, Blogger doesnt seem to encourage photo posts, and the post looks amazing in the edit screen (which for some reason is different to the final post) anyway, I'm not re-editing the whole post...

The sun rising over the makgadigadi salt pans... note the 2 ton hilux slowly sinking in the foreground

Soaked after Victoria Falls

Jared not too staked at his recent appointment as luggage handler
Jared - Malawi 2007
Matt and Jared - Malawi 2007
Riders of the storm soaking up some rays on Paje beach
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Tending to Stanley in Southern Kenya

Lank antisocial train journey to Mombasa

Close up of Mattie wearing a hat with a wide angle lens
Close up of tourists wearing hats with a wide angle lens (cue music)

The epic second ever international stone skipping contest 2007 Lamu archipelago
Mattie takes the lead, Andi the adjudicator watching on
This is the beach from hell, dont be fooled, if you see this place, run!
Our tame accountant, running the numbers
Enjoying Hells gate before we crashed and the shit hit the fan

mustafa's gorge

Majesty
Jared
Ken dealing with Autoritei
The overlander to pride rock

Equator
Me and my buddy
Waiting patiently for a lift
Spreading crazy eights throughout africa
View of the convoy from our truck

Truck drive through Chalbi Desert... to Ethiopia
Debre Zeit camp site with Esther
Coldest morning of his life
Nick checking out our route plans though the window (The were stalking us)

A pit stop in Ethiopia

lalibella church

Mattie in a prayer hole... It worked

St George's

Priest

Ouzzo

Essie doing the tourist thing in Lalibella
Mattie and jared paying for their sins

lalibella Church, chipped out of a mountain
Gonder castle - 2007
Sudan, the start of the desert camping trip

Jared riding to the piramids of Meru
Mattie
Pd
The Piramids of meru - The Sudan


Our camp site

The sun rose, and out of nowhere arrived this salesman and his donkey... amazing
Jared couldnt handle the majesty so his nose started to bleed

A bit of a stroll to the Royal enclosure
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Nubian Express

Mattie attempting to look comfortable, simply to piss off those around him

Dirty, dirty man
Wadi-Halfa, good to walk again after 40 hours of train
Nick and Sam...

Good times

Mattie and the Felucca captain (The Boss)
Hats
Egypts finest whisky and Gin (John Warder and Gordoon's)
Our R6 pp/night accomodation in Aswan
Chilling out on the Felucca on our way to Komombo

The white symbolises purity and rebirth, while the egyptian cotton is a symbol of Egypt

The trio at the Sphinx
Mattie

The Album Cover...

Look at that purity

Jared... aka Ginger spice

We could hardly keep the groupies off us... so inevitably there had to be a picture... she likes mattie the most
Pd and jared
Pd and Mattie
Jared and mattie

All for one...

The end.