Day 36: Friday 7th March: Karonga to Nyamagabe via Nyungwe Forest. Odo start 9355km. The Nile Congo trail continues and we have some fun today crossing washed away dirt roads that the locals build split pole bridges for us to cross over (and for a tip of course) and past broken down lorries that we mean we have to literally edge by at a 40 degree angle - very exciting (for me at least, Lyn of course is now sitting on "driver's" side of the road). Actually I hopp...

Day 32: Mon 3rd March: Akagera Lodge to Kigali to Kinigi We leave the Lodge after breakfast and I (Lyn) have been able to eat so all good. We head for Kigali where we will meet up with our fellow travellers. We have of course arranged to meet at a coffee shop in a small shopping centre in Kigali. All goes well and after coffee we go back to our vehicle which has attracted the attention of South Africans Ronald and his wife Michaela who live in Kigali. We crack t...

Day 31: Sun 2nd March: Move to Akagera Lodge. We arrive at our campsite around 17h00 and shock! Horror! One filthy long-drop toilet and no water whatsoever which means no hand-basins or showers. Ugh!! The road to get here has been horrendous so there is no way we can go back to the lodge or find another site. Especially irritating is that we have had to pay $220 for these two days of camping in this park. The site itself is on top of the escarpment with magn...

Day 28: Thurs 27th Feb: Serengeti to Mwanza - start odo 7911km travelled. We leave at 7:30 for a 4 hour drive through the park to the gate, seeing quite a bit of the usual suspects in game (buffalo, wildebeest, impala, warthog, elephant, giraffe, zebra - lots and lots of pyjama party). After a tea break at the lodge just outside the park gate we head for Mwanza on Lake Victoria. The first 30km is good tar and we are justifiably surprised, then the road turns to...