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...

Sumbawanga (Feb 10th - 11th by Paul)We headed out of Mbeya early the next day because we were fairly sure the roads would be quite bad so thought we should give ourselves as much time as possible. The first 100km was good tarmac to the border town of Tunduma, which was a crazy town full of big trucks waiting to cross the border, it appeared that a lot of them had come from the way we were headed so figured we should be ok. We eventually got out of town, a bit har...

Mbeya (Feb 8th - 10th by Paul)As we left the Mushroom Farm we had to negotiate the narrow windy road back down to lake level. As we went down we caught glimpses of the lake and we could see these dark clouds that looked like smoke floating just above the water. We then realised that these were in fact clouds of flies that we had seen on the BBC's Planet Earth series (and read about in the guide book). At certain times of the year huge numbers of flies gather to m...