Arusha - March 2nd to 4th by Paul After a lazy morning and a nice cooked breakfast from the heat of the previous night's fire, we packed up and headed off. Just before we left I looked under the car as we had been hearing a new clunking noise as we drove. I noticed what looked like some oil or grease leaking from one of the rear wheels. We couldn't do much about it at that time so headed off anyway. We needed fuel so stopped in near the park headquarters. Whil...

Ngorongoro - February 29th to March 2nd by Paul The road to the entrance of Ngorongoro was very busy and very dusty. There were a lot of safari vehicles racing along. We eventually got to the offices to move into the Ngorongoro which was quite busy with a lot of safari vehicles signing in and out. We had a quick break, cold drink from the fridge and a chat with a couple of the other drivers, who were all quite interested in Kal and got the usual questions abou...

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...

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 ...