Down Tanzania – Part 3

Last leg of Tanzania … the road the Tunduma, where tarmac starts again all the way to the Malawi border. Again, as usual on this trip .. up early, packed everything, had some scrambled egg on toast and Africafe instant coffee in the restaurant of the country club. I set off, but the road is [...]

Down Tanzania – Part 2

Up very early, mainly because he hippos are so damn noisy … cold shower, sharing it with loads of mosquitos, but better than no shower It is a cloudy day … with a constant drissle. I thought I will wait a while for the rain to stop, but it didn’t, so I decided to pack [...]

Down Tanzania – Part 1

I have divided this road down Tanzania into 3 parts, first day would be to Mpanda, second day to Sumbawanga and the last day before I cross the border into Malawi would be to Mbeya. The first day is from Kigoma, down a very small and unmarked road to Uvinza and then down the B8 [...]

To ferry or not to ferry …

We arrived in Kigoma a few days ago and whallah … Visa ATM machine Lindsay said we should maybe go to the port first to find out how much a ferry would be, then we know how much money to get, so off we went … At the ferry port, we found out there is [...]

hello and goodbye Rwanda, off to Tanzania.

I left the campsite (adrift) in Jinja quite early the next morning, knowing that I have about 500km ahead of me to get to Kabele, just north of the Rwandan border. I sat off and mistakingly, but maybe unavoidable, the GPS routed me straight through the Uganda capital, Kampala … what a mess. From now [...]