Serengeti - February 27th to 29th by Susan Finally it was time to explore the legendary Serengeti National Park, it wouldn't be cheap but being in Northern Tanzania we couldn't not go and check it out for ourselves.Coming from the west it was easier to drive Kal in rather than take a safari and we decided that 2 nights should be enough.They charge in 24 hr blocks in both the Serengeti and Ngorongoro so we turned up at the park gates just before 11am which mean...

Mwanza - (Feb 25th - 27th by Paul) Leaving the gorilla's we decided we would head back to Tanzania, having dropped Dave and Kaz at the Ugandan border as they wanted to head that way to check out another country, we'd meet up with them somewhere along the way again. After a long sleep in we headed off. After a bit of research the night before we wanted to head for a place called Mwanza located on the shores of Lake Victoria, however we knew that it was too far...

Rwanda - February 14th to 24th by Susan Rwanda was not a country on our original itinerary but given the troubles in Kenya over the December election and the fact that we were now zooming up the western side of Tanzania it was an obvious choice.Not sure what to expect given Rwanda's past we were pleasantly surprised by our first glimpses of the country as we drove on smooth tar towards Kigali the capital.The road sides were a continual stream of small mud huts b...

Kigoma (Feb 12th - 14th by Paul)We still had a long drive to get to Kigoma, a bigger town that we hoped would have petrol and was on lake Tanganyika, we headed out for it hoping the road would be better than the previous couple of days. In the town of Mpanda, about 30km from where we camped we filled up with fuel, which we were told was very lucky because it was about to run out, again… We were also told that the road ahead was better than what we had just ...

Katavi River Camp (Feb 11th - 12th by Paul)The next morning we headed off again, it had rained a lot during the night so weren't sure how this would affect the road, it didn't make much difference, it was still rough and slow. There were some trucks and buses on the road but not too much traffic.The road went through a national park (Katavi National Park) and we thought we could camp there for the night. As we passed though the park, we saw some elephants, giraff...