2 days on the road

Trip Start Sep 04, 2008
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Trip End Oct 13, 2008


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Monday, September 15, 2008

Today is a driving day. We spend a great part of the day driving from Arusha to Dar es Salaam - we stop overnight in a place called Tembo. During the drive we pass many villages and small pockets of homes. I'll describe a typical home. It is made from sticks and can only be as tall as the longest stick. They then layer over the sticks mud which then hardens and dries. The roof is generally made from branches, leaves, grasses. Very few have any type of window. Some of the newer places may have corregated iron roofs but most don't. Yet the kids still come running to the roadside when they see us approach and wave as much as they can so we can see them. We still see random Masai men herding their live stock miles from anywhere.
 
It is my team's turn to cook at tonights campsite. We have warthog sausages. Which adds to the other game we have already eaten: gizelle, kudu and buffalo. So far all the meals have been very good and we only ask what we have eaten - AFTER we have finished.

The next day is similar to the last. We keep driving east towards Dar es Salaam. Our campsite is on the beach and there is an upgrade option for $50US. Anthony and I take it and are rewarded with a bungalow built on stilts with a beautiful balcony, hammock and king bed with the all important mosquito net (which does help to give it the romantic feeling). We have a quick swim and meet some extra people joining our truck for the journey south through Malawi to J'burg.
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