Elizabeth

Mikumi National Park

 Posted by Elizabeth at 7:03 pm
Jun 232011
 
Mikumi National Park

We left Ruaha and headed back to Iringa, where we stayed at the Riverside Camp. A number of other travellers also turned up and we spent a nice night gathering information for our onward travels and sharing what we knew. I managed to sleep in until 8am, we had fried eggs on toast for breakfast […]

Selous Game Reserve

 Posted by Elizabeth at 6:00 pm
Jun 252011
 
Selous Game Reserve

After a morning game drive in Mikumi National Park we headed towards Selous Game Reserve, which is off the beaten path to say the least. A quick stop in Morogoro for fuel and groceries and then we turned off onto a dirt track. The drive was scenic as it wound through mountains, tropical vegetation and […]

Kilwa Masoko & Kilwa Kisiwani

 Posted by Elizabeth at 6:50 pm
Jun 272011
 
Kilwa Masoko & Kilwa Kisiwani

Thankfully the road out of Selous was not muddy and nowhere near as bad as the road we had taken in. When we hit the main road to Dar Es Salaam, we turned right instead of left to Dar and headed towards Kilwa Masoko. Once again we managed to find a terrible road! They were […]

Dar Es Salaam

 Posted by Elizabeth at 8:23 pm
Jun 302011
 
Dar Es Salaam

We left Kilwa Masoko and headed north to Dar Es Salaam. Thankfully a large section of the horrible road had been graded the previous day, so whilst it was still bad it was nowhere near as bad as it had been on the way in. The crazy buses were still in abundance, and I am […]

Bagomoyo

 Posted by Elizabeth at 6:11 pm
Jul 012011
 
Bagomoyo

Before we left the civilisation of Dar Es Salaam we had a few errands to complete. First on the list was to fill our gas bottles which we had not been able to fill since Maun in Botswana. Tracks 4 Africa had a place on it called “Chiku’s Gas Refills of All Major” in the […]

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