We left Moshi for a drive to the coast to a town called Pangani on the Indian Ocean to stay at Peponi Resort which had been recommended to us. Unfortunately we couldn't find the track of the main road to the tiny town and after asking several locals and running out of daylight we had to stay in a place called Tanga for the night. In the morning we eventually found Peponi Resort whichw as a gem of a place right beside the palm tree lined beach. It was run by a ...

Moshi is a bustling town at the foot of Mr Kilimanjaro, which we never even got to see due to low cloud, and most people use it as the starting point for their climb. Unlike Arusha, Moshi is a town full of activity and atmosphere with a couple of good cafes and restaurants. We camped for one night at the Keys Hotel before deciding to head for the coast.

Arusha is the safari capital of Tanzania and a major tourism centre. We camped at Masai campt about 3k out of town, a long time favourite of overlanders like us and the usual overland trucks. This time it was 3 pink coaches called Pink Caravan from Sweden some of whome we had seen previously in Uganda. The town of Arusha was just a haven of touts mythering you about oeverything under the sun, they even aksed you for money for showing you where the ATM machine ...

The Serengeti is a massive game reserive with vast treeless plains. We drove in through the northern gate and down what is known as the western corrider. As the main track straight through the National Parl is part of the main highway cutting east to west through Tanzania there is also some local traffic on this road. After a couple of hours driving and seeing only the occasional vehicle we came across a broken down car containing 4 local guys. It turned out they...

We made good time to the border, the roads being good on the Rwanda side. We had to wait a while at immigration to get our passport stamped out as the guy had gone to lunch but other than that it was easy enough. Once more as soon as we crossed into another country the landscape was completely different this time turning from tropical paradise to remote scrubland with minimum infrastructure and vast trackless expanses of land . This route from Rwanda to Mwanza...