Day 68 – 70: Lake Shore Lodge to Sumbawanga
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 [...]
Day 66 – 67: Mpulungu to Lake Shore Lodge
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 [...]
Day 65 Luke’s Beach to Mpulungu
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 [...]
Day 62-64: Luke’s Beach
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 [...]
Day 60-61: Kasama to Mpulungu
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 [...]
Day 58-59 Lumangwe Falls to Kasama
We initially thought to stay for two days at the falls, but after seeing the run-down facilities and being the only people and still seeing leaking oil we decided to head back to Kasama. We [...]
Day 57 Kasama to Lumangwe Falls
We thought of staying another day, but also wanted to ‘test’ the new bearing and seals. Caro made French Toast and then we decided to go to the Lumangwe Falls. After settling our bill we [...]
Day 56 Kapishya to Kasama
We slept in our ground tent again, even though we had the MonkeyMobile with us, the one mattress deflated again through the night and at 05:00 in the morning Hugo shifted over to Caro’s mattress. [...]
Day 53-55 Still Kapishya Hot Springs
It’s already a week later as I’m writing this so a lot of the emotion has subsided a bit. Looking back we could have done a lot of things differently, but the way it evolved [...]