On the morning we were due to leave for Malawi disaster struck. WE had been hearing a squeeking noise that we hadn't heard before and just as we were due to leave Peter checked the tire pressures and also checked under the truck. He discovered to his dismay a crack in the chassis which can have disastrous consequences and could even put an end to our trip . In the campsite on the evening before we left we met an English woman who was telling us that she and her...

We headed west on our way to Malawi on one of the best roads we have travelled in Tanzania. Unfortunately just out of town it turned out to be just as dangerous as the rest of the roads as we were held up for an hour following a serious accident involving a lorry which had run off the road. Iringa is set on a bluff at 1600 meters overlooking a river and was a lot cooler with much less humidity which made it possible to get a decent nights sleep once again. We...

We left Zanzibar on the ferry at 4 p.m. and arrived back in Dar at 6 p.m. We walked past the hotel where George Bush was staying which was surrounded by security and went back to the campsite where we had left the truck. Again it is so hot and humid it is unpleasant sleeping in the camper at the moment and so we decided that we would check into a hotel for the next couple of nights...how wrong we were!! We drove for 70k around the whole of Dar and the surround...

We left Dar in the morning when we first realised George Bush would be visiting by the time we came back from Zanzibar and was actually staying at the Kilimanjaro Hotel which we had just been looking around the day before. We caught the ferry at 10.30 and landed in Zanzibar at 12.30. Whatever image the name Zanzibar conjures up in your mind is probably just what Zanzibar is actually like. It is very Middle Eastern with a touch of Morocco and in a strange way t...

We drove the 300k or so to Dar Es Salaam getting stopped by the police for speeding once which we disputed and he left us off but we were stopped several more times during the journey for routine document checks which does get a bit tedious after a while. They ask for your driving licence, check if you have a fire extinguisher and warning triangle which is a complete joke because every broken down vehicle you see, of which there are many, just use branches cut o...