After another stopover in Dar, we made our way to Marangu which is one of the gateway towns to Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa at 5896m tall - something I'd like to climb one day - but not on the this trip! It was in the clouds when we arrived but the next morning we could see it beautifully - you'd hope so at 6 in the morning! It was stunning, covered in snow. Our next stop was the Twiga camp at Mto Wa Mbu. Half an hour after arriving, some of the gr...

We stayed overnight in a lovely farmhouse in Iringa where we had a traditional(?) Malawian dinner of roast beef and veggies! We had an awful 4am start the next morning and had breakfast on the road at about 7am - we were all very grumpy!! We arrived in Dar Es Salaam where it was so hot and sticky, it was really unpleasant. All the locals were pushing and shoving as we got on the ferry to our campsite by the beach. We didn't see much of Dar except out of the truck...