How to stay alive in Africa

This is an important bit, so concentrate...

Firstly... Don't get Malaria!

Malaria Bear

The travel clinic seems relatively easy to organise.  It's not cheap, but you can't put a price on your health!

Nic says that there are no jumping snakes in Africa, but there are definitely snakes.

Don't let a snake bite you...

...even if he is only little

Mmmmmmozzie

We'll be sleeping in a tent on top of our van mainly, so we'll hopefully avoid a lot of the snakes and creepy nasties.  Apparently we might even have less mosquitos attacking us if we're a bit higher off the ground.

And of course we'll have a mozzie net (maybe 2) and lots of Deet.

Nic's already worrying about tics.  He got bitten by a tic when he was in Mozambique last, so he is now paranoid about them.  His advice to avoid these is:

"Don't run around barefoot in the grass"

There'll be none of this in Africa