Day 183 – 184: Livingstonia to Chintheche
We got up leisurely, packed up and went to the Mushroom Farm next door for breakfast. Despite the name, it is not actually a farm and they don’t even have mushrooms on their menu. It [...]
Day 182: Chitimiba to Livingstonia
Just as we wanted to get out of the tent it started to rain. We couldn’t believe that the rain even caught us in Malawi, we’ve thus had rain in every single country we visited [...]
Day 181: Mbeya, Tanzania to Chitimba, Malawi
We left at 09:00 after another big breakfast in the hotel. We drove north to the T10 from Uyolu as we wanted to skip the roadworks to Mbalizi. The road was very beautiful with rolling [...]
Day 179 – 180: Sumbawanga to Mbeya, no2
We went down for breakfast at 08:00, taking the Nutella with us from the beginning, but sadly there weren't pancakes again. Instead there was Mandazi which still went OK with Nutella. Since there were no [...]
Day 177 – 178: Katavi to Sumbawanga
We wanted to get an early start, but even without having breakfast we only left at 10:00. The road through Katavi is probably the worst section of the whole western route with some corrugations and [...]
Day 176: Kigoma to Sitalike
We got up to a cloudy morning and Caro made egg fried rice for breakfast. We packed up slowly and only left by 09:26. In Kigoma we stopped at a small duka to buy some [...]
Day 173 – 175: Kibondo to Kigoma
We set an alarm for 07:00 and managed to actually get up and take another shower. Just as we were about to leave the room a staff member came to ask us to move the [...]
Day 172: Kigali, Rwanda to Kibondo, Tanzania
We wanted to leave as early as 08:00, but the overland truck was going nowhere. Most of the passengers were still having breakfast and lounging around, at least their tents were already packed up. By [...]
Day 171: Kibuye back to Kigali
We got woken by splashing fluid close to our car. We again had visions of people dousing us in fuel and setting us alight. Caro looked out the window and saw that someone was washing [...]