Mbeya

7 months in Africa and South America, enjoy reading!!

This blog is the story of our trip through africa from London to Cape Town in a 1993 Ford Courier Double Cab 4x4. Its name is Corrie. Our Crew consists of 3 Auditors, or has been auditors. Andre Buchner, Dave Colley and Rob Knowles, aged 26, 27, 27 ...

Nairobi through to Cape Town in 8 weeks.

... . Finally, after 15 hours on the road, cramped together in the vehicle, we pulled into Karibuni (meaning Friendship) Centre, in Mbeya, a guesthouse run by a local mission. This is where we parted for the night. Luckily we had ten minutes to order ...

... the passengers were still missing and the bus was only moving slowly and revving up its engine to rush the passengers. Damn. I reached Mbeya at 7:30pm where I met Deus Gratius (Thank the Lord in Latin I think) who also came with me on the same ...

... la bouche une fois pour qu’ils sachent que je viens d’ailleurs et que les prix du marché augmentent ! » Mbeya est suffisamment proche de la frontière du Malawi pour y passer une nuit avant de franchir un autre pays… par ...

... at least once today but nope. None of that here, one of the cops even gave a fistbump after saying "Jah never die". I quite like Mbeya, seems like a chill enough place to spend a few days but Lake Malawi is only a stones throw away and the warm heart of ...

From Karonga, it was less than an hour to the border. Then it was three or four hours to Mbeya. We drove through mountains of tea. I met Mr. Paul Banda on the bus, who bought me some fruits I never knew existed with dark red-purple juice. I don't remember ...