southeast Africa: when trips go very very badly

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but you seriously need to alter your planning and decision making processes or someone else is going to have to re-host the forum content yet again - assuming your next of kin have the administrator passwords.

Glad you made it out - hopefully wiser - and thanks so much for sharing the harrowing story! As they say, a wise man doesn’t learn from his mistakes - he learns from others’ mistakes. But that requires folks brave enough to share their mistakes openly. Kudos to you for doing so! I’m only a little way through the more detailed write up and hoping the rest of the trip is a smoother adventure.