It’s taken us a little while to get this list together, but here’s our Africa Index. Interested in a statistic we haven’t listed here? Just ask!
Visa cost, in USD per person, of visiting those countries: $595
Most expensive visa process, in USD per person: $250 (Sudan)
Countries where boarder guard waved his rifle at us and told us to go back: 1
Time spent in months: 5.5
Nights spent sleeping on a bus: 3
Airplanes flown (for a side trip): 1
Airplanes boarded where our name or ticket was checked: 0
Total e. coli infections between us: 1
Number of times e. coli was fun: 0
Number of laughs at Danny’s expense due to e. coli: immeasurable
Total gastro-intestinal lab tests: 1
Number of weekly malaria tablets consumed: 46
Number of crazy dreams, psychotic episodes, or other side affects: 0
Time, in years, until the Red Cross is interested in having our blood: 1
Number of times “Dr.” Jill diagnosed us as having malaria: 5
Number of times we’ve actually had malaria…so far: 0
Number of languages we learned how to say ‘hello’ in: 7
Visitors from home: 1
Boxes sent home via mail: 3
Boxes destroyed via mail: 1
Tears shed: Unknown
Photos taken: 9,182
Amount of space, in gigabytes, needed to store our African photos and videos: 40
Weight, in kilograms, of an Elephant’s penis: 25
Elephants, in heat, who charged our car: 1
Leopards spotted: 2
Cheetahs spotted: 3
Lions spotted: 50+
Dorky references to Lion King: Immeasurable.
Distance in km, when driving directly, from Cape Town to Cairo: 12,000
Mileage in km, driving around South Africa, put on our 6 week rental car: 12,000
Number of bribes requested of us: 2
Number paid: 1
Number paid with money: 0
Number of nights spent with bed bugs and/or fleas: 1
Percentage of nights spent killing mosquitoes before bed: 50
Sleepless nights spent listening to wild animals immediately outside the tent: 3
Most expensive campsite: $55
Length of time we went without a real shower: 4 days
Cheapest pint of beer: $0.05
Highest Temperature we saw: 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit)
Really big mountains we were happy to have climbed: 1
Number of really big mountains we intend to climb again: 0
Longest time we waited for our Gmail Inbox to load: 30 minutes
Mark Kennet says
This is great, guys! And it can be used by anyone who is interested in African development….
Jillian says
Glad you like it. I think we enjoy putting these kinds of posts together the best.