What to do?
Trip Start
Apr 21, 2008
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Trip End
Apr 20, 2009
Kigali,
Rwanda
Saturday, May 24, 2008
I have approached the part of my African tour that I was not looking forward to the most. I now have to figure out the best way to get to Malawi directly from Rwanda. Reading the guide books, they give you the impression it could take you up to a week to do this trek. It's even noted that it isn't a route that is commonly done by travelers as the roads on the Tanzanian side are quite horrible. The options are endless. I can backtrack through Rwanda and Uganda where the roads are good and find my way to Dar Es Salaam (DES) where I could catch a bus to the Tanzania - Malawi border. This is estimated to be about a 4-5 day journey. I didn't like this option as I would need to buy another Ugandan Visa. I also didn't like the fact that I was going to see the same things along the way. Another option was to catch a ferry in Burundi that would take 5 days to get close to the Malawi border. However, I heard from one traveler that he tried this and didn't find any ferry. He wasn't sure if the ferry didn't exist or if it just didn't pass that regularly. I decided against this option as I did not want to invest 2 days of traveling to get to the ferry's starting point only to find out it no longer existed.
In the end, I decided to get myself to a town called Mwanza (in Tanzania). From there, I would ask some locals the best way to get to Malawi. The guide book said it would take me 2 days to get to Mwanza but I was determined in getting there in 1 day. Lyndsay was going in the same direction as she was on her way to organizing a safari in the Serengeti so I was going to have company along the way which is always nice when you are crossing borders.
That's it for now.
