Resources and Links for Backpacking in East Africa

General Travel

AdrianWarren.com: extremely helpful--everything you'll need to know about using technology such as computers and cameras on the road.

Budget Travel Online: good tips for travel on the cheap.

Couch Surfing: it's worth using this site to find a free couch to sleep on.

Country Calling Codes: learn how to call a particular country.

Cyber Cafes: tells of worldwide cyber cafe locations.

Practical Nomad: a nice list of pertinent links.

Rolff Potts: a good place to learn about travel writing and the art of vagabonding.

Universal Currency Converter: turns your dollars into shillings.

US State Department: learn new things to fear.

World Hum: my favorite travel hub.

Africa Travel Resources

Africa Guide: BootsnAll's guide to Africa--painfully average but a decent forum.

AllAfrica: news from all the newspapers in Africa organized by region and country.

Africa South of the Sahara : Standford's Africa hub--by country, region and topic.

BBC Africa: sometimes trite, sometimes great, always news.

CIA World Factbook: proving once again that good can come of evil.

Geekeasy: a good guy with a good story and some good guides to Moshi and Addis.

Lonely Planet Thorntree: the premier Q&A forum for traveling in Africa.

Rough Guides Forum : nowhere near as active as the LP TT, but potentially helpful.

UPenn African Studies: an excellent page with information by country.

Africa Blogs

Africa Unchained: discuss Africa's development and problems.

BlackLooks: an award-winning and intelligent site that shakes things up.

BlogAfrica: a good aggregate of people writing on African issues.

Chippla's Weblog: an informed take the news coming out of Africa and elsewhere.

Jewels in the Jungle: taking a closer look at Africa today.

My Heart's in Africa: a blog with consistent African content.

Notebook Africa: Christian Science Monitor reporters' experiences and reflections.

Congo

Congogirl: keep up to date on the Congo and beyond.

Jeremierita: a good source for Congo travel tips.

Lots of Big Ideas : a Congolese blogger who gives voice to victims of violence.

Ethiopia

Ethiopundit: eclectic Ethiopian and Ethio-American commentary.

Meskelsquare: an avid journalist working out of Ethiopia.

Weichegud!: Ethiopian politics.

Kenya

Kenyan Pundit: Kenyan culture and politics.

Kenya Unlimited: a nice collection of blogs from Kenya.

Kumekucha: conspiracy everywhere! intense and frequently updated.

Mental Acrobatics: the personal blog of a Kenyan patriot.

Mzalendo: find out what the Kenya Parliament is getting up to.

Rwanda

forthcoming.

Tanzania

forthcoming

Uganda

forthcoming.