Since this was the most expensive hotel we stayed in so far, we expected the breakfast to also be the best and it didn’t fail to deliver. Beside the usual offerings they also had delicious Samosas (called Sambusa in Tanzania) and the eggs was served as a omelette. There was also a fruit platter with [...]
We didn’t set an alarm, but Hugo woke up at 08:00 and went for a shower. Back at the tent it took some convincing to get Caro up. We made tea and french toast for breakfast, all the bad bread found in Africa at least makes for delicious french toast. We took our time packing [...]
We wanted to leave early again as by now we knew that when people say something is a five hour drive it will take us seven hours. As you can probably guess this didn’t happen and we only left the hotel by 10:00. In our defence we did have a big breakfast in the [...]
We set an alarm again for 07:00 with the idea of being at the workshop in Mbeya by 08:00, as usual we just snoozed until 08:00 and then only left after 09:00. We thus only got to Highland Motors at 10:00 during everyone's tea break. We waited a few minutes for Mr Perreira, an [...]
We had breakfast again in the hotel. We tried out the date syrup (that we recently bought) on the chipati and it was quite good. At 09:30 we were finally packed up and checked out and on the road again. The road was mostly tarred and mostly in a good condition. A lot of people [...]
Hugo couldn’t sleep and stayed awake until 02:00 in the morning, browsing and posting things. So naturally when the alarm went off at 07:00 he just switched it off and continued sleeping. Eventually after 08:00 we woke up from the thunder in the skies. We decided to leave as we didn’t want the tent to [...]
Somewhere in the night the heaviest rain storm so far hit our tent. The tent held good, but the splashing from the jerry cans still caused the sides to get a bit wet. We planned to get an early start, but then Caro remembered she was suppose to add images to her assignment. So she [...]
Caro got up at 06:00 and went to lie in the hammock again for old time’s sake. Steven was suppose to get us at 08:00, but decided to arrive at 07:00 just when Caro came to wake Hugo up. We thus had to quickly throw everything in our bags and was ready to leave in [...]
We got up at 08:00 and packed our ‘weekend’ bags and some food into a crate. We were taking a 2 big bags, two day packs, 25L water bottle, gas canister and one ammo box with food. For breakfast we ate some of last night’s pap with sugar and milk. At 09:30 were basically done [...]
We had quite the packing up to do as everything was just thrown on the back seat and in the back. We settled our bill and finally started heading north again, but first another stop at the Shoprite. While Caro started shopping Hugo refueled the MonkeyMobile at the Puma station. We wonder where people who [...]
