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Travel Blogs from Sumbawanga, Tanzania
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You Can't Get There From Here
This is a top pick! ... and much exhausted passengers in our land cruiser choked on dust from the truck in the front. Finally, we pulled into Sumbawanga, dirty, tired, sore, and desperately hungry and dehydrated. We achingly made our way to a little hotel where we collapsed ...
Suffering to Sumbawanga
... away leaving most of the in-between without a food source. As we talked to more and more people about our next destination (Sumbawanga) they all mentioned the road. 'Can you make it?' ‘Sumbawanga on bikes?’, ‘Cycle on these ...
Living in S'wanga
We've met so many lovely people, including crazy Charles, our personal God, who has helped us with settling into the hostel we're staying at for the next 2 weeks at 1 pound 20 a night (can't find the pound sign...) He's given us invaluable advice, ...
Starting work :)
We started work today! Despite a few misunderstandings with immigration we managed to visit two schools in Sumbawanga to gather information that we need so we can distribute the books most effectively. The first school (St. Maurus) was quite a ...
S'wanga Shinanigans
... house tonight for dinner. Richard is working for a construction company which is building a (much-needed) road from Mbeya to Sumbawanga. The company car and house they have is amazing compared to English standards and so was overwhelming to us after 2 ...
Bus, bus and even more bus
... two days to get there and travellers have to stay overnight in Sumbawanga which is nothing more than an ugly town. The journey to Sumbawanga took HelMan through Katavi National Park (for free, since this is where the public road goes) and we even saw some ...
Less-than-poetic Muse...
We've finally started distribution and have managed to visit 4 of the 24 schools on our list. The books didn't arrive until 4pm on Thursday despite the assurance by the driver that he will '100%' be there at 3pm on Wednesday and then '100%' that it'll be ...
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