The road to Moshi, is again another uneventful tour through changing landscapes and few towns. Fertile soil and aloe farms give way to dry dusty landscapes in the shadow of lush forest mountain ranges. Moshi is a tourist town, a gateway for those travelling to Kilimanjaro, filled with curio shops and safari tour operators. They had a Nakumatt, which we have found to be a westerner's best friend in terms of availability of the luxuries of the South African super...

We took a morning walk along the beach and drove around town a bit later and found Bagamoyo to be an interesting, off-the-map place. It is now a fishing village with a very vibrant market and an attempt to make it an arty, touristy cultural experience especially with its proximity to Dar es Salaam. It has a strong Arab influence from its history as a slave-trade port similar but not as famous as Zanzibar, then taken over by the Germans and finally the British b...

The landscape continually changes, making the road on this trek ever interesting. The drive from Iringa through to Morogoro took us through the most beautiful pass between forest clad mountains down to the plains of parks such as the Mikhumi below. The road was also a lot better, probably the upgrade of the TanZam highway we saw being done between Old Farmhouse and Iringa. The trucks and busses are mad in Tanzania. Absolutely mad. They will blindly overt...

There is a time difference in Tanzania - an hour ahead and so with the late start we get after camping and setting our watches only in the morning we were on the road at 10. This stretch of Tanzania is at high altitude and very arid, very different from the lush ascent from Malawi. I've decided we're playing Cops and Robbers, I'm just trying to work out who are who on the road! We were stopped by the police 5 times and had to talk our way out of 3 fines ...

Our first rain! We would have easily avoided it but for our late start, it rained from about 7-10am but we still managed to make French toast from under an umbrella. The road through to the border degraded the closer we got, it's one of those phenomena that make borders the most horrible places. We went through Karonga where Ant's grandmother was born but there was nothing really to investigate there. We intended to make the border our finest effort. The...