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Tweet The amount of distance that needed to be covered in the South was intimidating! We had to haul some ass and get this trip on the move! Getting out of Goa we headed out into Karnataka. All this time Nick’s thumb was hurting, especially over the combination speed bumps…7 speed breakers in a row? What’s the point??? That little…
It was a big relief to finish the “Road to hell” in one piece. It was mentally and physically challenging, stressful, and just pure survival. Nick was super relieved especially travelling with a wife for obvious reasons of abduction, looting and even murder. 2 days later a British guy was shot dead travelling in a Land Rover and robbed and…
Again, easy border crossing into Kenya. Instead of going the Kisumu way, we decided on going to Eldoret. It was chilly and started to rain decently hard as we rolled in. Eldoret is kind of a messy city. The roads were a bit tight and bad and with water and silt it was not pretty. We rode around the whole…
The border crossing into Uganda was simple with the usual road tax charged in these African countries. We decided to ride to Jinja which is where Nile or White Nile supposedly starts…I won’t get into that because it seems people take the location of the Nile source pretty seriously. We ended up camping out at the Adrift Camp which had…
Getting into Kenya was nothing too complicated except for being hounded by Masaai ladies. They kept on pushing their beaded jewelry on me saying it was a free gift from them to me. Saw this trick in Laos We rolled into Nairobi and met up with my Uncle Pili. My Nanaji’s parents (my great-grandparents) and his siblings moved to Kenya…
Crossing the border into Tanzania was an ordinary affair…usual money changers, customs clearance agents, and insurance agents heckling for your attention and your business…except for one thing. A customs official who actually knew more about the carnet de passage than we do. The Tanzanian customs officer had the knowledge and presence of mind to fill in the middle section of…
Mozambique was a short affair. In terms of scenery there wasn’t much in north Mozambique. It was dry and pretty poor. We passed village after village of mud houses and bags full of coal to sell lined up on the road. As with most of the other countries, you had the occasional crowd surrounding the water pump with plastic Jerry…
We really took our time and packed up and then headed out as well. The border was only about 150kms away and the roads were bad, the ruts in the roads meant you really had to have your wits about you in order not to lose it on these roads. We passed a group of about 5 overloaded trucks carrying…
We left on an equally bad road towards Thompsons Falls as we were going to see the flamingoes at the lakes, only to find out that it was ridiculously priced to get into the parks, $80 per person $30 camping per person and then another $xxx for the vehicle. What an absolute rip-off, so we decided we would rather see…
We packed up and bid farewell to Lake Boringa. Someone we had met along our travels mentioned that Maralal was a nice place to visit so we headed out towards Maralal. The roads were rough and the scenery although pretty was not spectacular. The annual camel Derby is held in Maralal, and it was strange to ride along the dirt…
We decided to see the Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwe side since we were more interested in getting a frontal view. From Zambia, you are getting a view right on top. We got a bit late crossing into Zimbabwe, but along the way we saw tons of wild elephants taking shade under trees near the road. It was getting a…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left and continued on our way towards Victoria Lake. We arrived at Lake Victoria did some shopping at the Nakumatt and then started looking for a campsite. As for the lake no one would ever say there is a lake there as it is covered hycinth. The first one was very dodgy and we…
Looking back at the Namibia post, I realized that I kept repeating the fact that it was damn hot in Namibia. That’s because it was freakin hot in Namibia. And so was Botswana. We took the Trans-Kalahari border crossing into Botswana and again found dryness. Just flat dryness. Then the dead cows started. Either due to heat, lack of rain,…
South Africa had been such an amazing time, we spent a month traveling through and still felt as if there was so much to see. It was time to move on though, so we headed to Namibia. People had told us it was absolutely beautiful. And that there’s few tar roads. We were a bit worried about sand because of…
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Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left Red Elephant Lodge after breakfast and headed for Mombasa. We arrived at noon and were happy to get there early as we could enjoy putting camp up in the light, only to hit Saturday traffic and what a nightmare. There were miles and miles of trucks. A passing motorist said to Larry that…
Halfway to Durban we got the greatest gift…sunshine! We hit the coast around Salt Rock and stopped for an hour to chill and figure out where to stay. An Indian man came up to us and started chatting and suggested a place in Tongaat. We should’ve known that the place would be a little suspect when the guy was continuously…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We left Nairobi and headed towards Mombasa what a nightmare of a road. The trucks and cars drive absolutely hectic and you need to have your wits about you in order just to stay on the road. It is about 600km from Nairobi to the coast and we knew from the onset that we would…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We set up camp at Jungle Junction and wondered where everyone was as there were just 4 wheel drives and motorcycle all over the place. The only person sitting around was Burt, he was reading a book and came over to say hi. The nice thing about JJ’s is this is the meeting place of…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We had a fare amount of Tanzanian Shillings left so just outside Arusha we filled up with Diesel and bought some goodies at a shop near the filling station. The cashier was so thankful that we had choosen her little shop to spend the last of our shillings. She was so helpful and walked around…
Tweet Coming to Johannesburg was a surreal experience, I hadn’t seen Nick in a week and considering that we’ve been together 24/7 for a year , that was a long time! Nick had been staying at his friend’s Bhaskar’s house. They both picked me up from the airport. I was a bit zonked out because the trip had been long…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We plugged into the Garmin that the next destination was Moshi and it took us down a 4wd road which at some places we thought we werent going to make it. At one particular spot I even said to Larry take the phone and put it in your pocket and jump out if you see…
Posted from Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya. We had a lovely drive through the rain forest on our way to Mambo Viewpoint campsite ($5 pppn). We set up camp and enjoyed camping with Gabby and Marcelle for the 2 nig hts they stayed. We took a walk to the vewpoint, a little of a challenge for me with my dicky ankle but…
We continued to Bagamoyo and spend the night at Travellers Lodge ($12 pppn) we thought it extremely expensive for what they offer but it is the only options we had as we had left Dar reasonably late after we picked up our charger. We left and headed toward the Umsambara Mountains where the Irente Farm is situated, we had read…
The road to Dar was bad although some sections of the road were newly tarred there were long stretches of detours and I was surprised not everything in the Trax broke. We arrived in Dar late afternoon and made our way to Kipepeo Beach and Village $8 pppn). According to all our information this was the place to set up…
Our first stop in Kilwa was at Kilwa Dreams and decided not to spend the night there as we felt the $15 per person per night was very expensive. We headed for another camp site that Garmin had picked up called Seaview camp ($10 pppn), we arrived to a lovely bush campsite overlooking the bay in Kilwa. The beach was…
From Masisa we headed towards Mtwara on the coast. We were in absolute in awe with the beautiful scenery, riding next to the rice plantation and coconut plantations. We stopped at one of houses they were selling coconuts and they were put into a basket made out of coconut leaves which we decided to keep as it is a very…
We left Pemba and stopped by at a little computer shop which we had noticed a few days earlier to see if they had a laptop charger for me, however the shop was still closed and we needed to wait until after 9am in order for the shop keeper to arrive. They showed me a charger which was not the…
We left Ilha da Mozambique and headed towards Pemba. We were really looking forward to Pemba and it is one of the destinations that was on Larry’s bucket lists. We had read and heard so many wonderful things about Pemba with it aqua waters and white sandy beaches typically thinking that it was some type of Tropical Island. Our dreams…