In a not quite mid-life crisis, Jacquie and Sarah - fancying themselves a bit rugged - head off to Africa in search of the deepest, darkest bits they'd seen on Sunday evening documentaries on the telly. Tear-gas riots, cholera, spider bites, rifle-toting rangers, over zealous marriage proposals and more bed bugs than you could poke a stick at, were not, however, quite what they'd been promised in those National Geographic specials.