Back to KiteSurf in Tofo
After the breakfast, I past by Nalimo at his office to thank him and wave a bye till my return. The weather was at least nice and dry, until halfway though. In Lindela at a road side restaurant I met up with Nick again. When I ordered my lunch it started bucketing it down. So I had an excuse orderin...
Lusaka
As I knew it will be a long day to get to Lusaka, I got up already at 6h30. I had to wait for breakfast and on top there was no electricity. They vould do scrambled eggs on the gire place, but not toasting the bread on it 😤🙄 Welcome to Africa! When leaving Katete I also needed fuel and as still no...
Chill-axing
Nalimo gave me company in the morning to leave XaiXai, that was really nice! Then it was just eating kilometres until getting off the N1 to Tofu. The first stretch was plastered in potholes and it was a bit rush hour so it took its time. Also there must have been showers during the day so there were...
Finalmente em Moçambique
It was so hard to say Good-bye to Lynne and Erin as again I had such a fantastic time with them 🤩 However, already looking forward to the next time 😁🤸♀️😁 It was a pretty panorama on the way to the border. Leaving South Africa was pretty easy with stamping passport and carnet. Mozambique was als...
Socialising 💃🍻
After a late breakfast, as the very enthusiastic girls 🙄 were a bit late, I packed up to leave to go back to South Africa. Leaving the place was a bit of a challenge 😳😅 First I had to turn my bike around on the hill on wet grass with my short legs...at even slid some metres back, but luckily mana...
Semonkong
After all was packed up, I headed first into town to top up the fuel. Then I left towards Semonkong, where I had booked for 2 nights, maybe 3 nights as I feel like a rest day. The ride was stunning as the landscape was just scenic!! And all these little villages plotted along. In the mountains you f...
Fuel crisis
The next morning, after a lovely breakfast, I headed towards Zomba, hopefully finding a fuel station selling petrol 🙏🙏 The riding was lovely, but no luck about the petrol. Halfway I bought 1l on the black market, now for 5k 😳😳 That was the most expensive fuel I have so far bought for this bike!!...
Back to Dodoma
I checked out about 13h00 of my room and Stephen was available for lunch after 14h00, which was perfect timing. In the meantime I booked my flight home to Portugal from Johannesburg, South Africa, for 20th November. I walked all the way to the Orchid Cafe where I will meet Stephen. Unfortunately the...
Zanzibar
The next morning I checked out about 9h30 as I was planning to meet Stephen, a local biker, at the restaurant from yesterday's lunch. He was running late due to the traffic but it was nice to met up!! About 11h30 he walked with me to the ferry station and suddenly I was under the wings of a local gu...
Rear Shock Saga
In the morning, after another poor breakfast, I wanted to do the checkout. Signs of credit cards, so I asked for payment via credit card. Not possible- here we go again! After requesting, the receptionist pulled out the machine and put it in front of me. Looks like, he doesn't know how it works, but...
What a day!!
After another meager breakfast, containing this time chapati, pancake and fruits, we left about 8h30 direction Mpanda. The first approx. 90km where road and then it turned into offroad, for probably about 160km. It started really nice with smooth surface and trees / bush land around. I drove about m...
Relaxing days in Rwanda
In the morning, as waiting for my breakfast I watched the kids having their physical exercise. Christopher, one of the "carer" explaining me the history of the project, just some years back. During the day, Damian wrote that he will come and stay here too so that we could cross border into Tanzania...
Seeing the Gorillas
In the morning I got up at 7am for breakfast. At 7h30 the lovely lady from the Guesthouse took me up the hill to the "reception" for the Gorilla tracking. It was busy with other tourists, mainly the upmarket ones with branded gear 🤭 Whilst I watched the dance performance of the local ladies, she di...
Furthest North for a while
About 6h30 I was awake as I heard animal noises, so I peeredout of my tent and saw 4 rhinos outside the campground. Wow, that is awsome!! I just watched that, in between I started to pack up. At some point a BodaBoda cought my attention as shortly after leaving it stopped on the track. When I looked...
Rhinos
In the morning we had a lovely breakfast together and after my bike was packed up, we finally took some pictures 😉 And then it was time for the last hugs and to say Good-bye 🥺 It was a fantastic time staying with Achim and Maria, all so relaxing. I hope we will meet again...Portugal, Lebanon or wh...
Welcome to Uganda
I got up as soon as the sun was shining into the garden as I needed to dry my camping gear, especially the sopping wet outer shell of my tent. Once that placed in the sun and most packed up I went for a delicious breakfast. By the time I finished breakfast the tent was dry and I could finish my pack...
Offroad for a change
After a delicious, enormous breakfast, I packed the bike and todays direction was finally Lake Bogoria and finding accommodation in Kabarnet. Once out of Nakuru it didn't take long to fork off towards the Lake Bogoria, offroad 😅 passing huge pineapple plantations. Occasionally there was still spank...
Kisumu, Lake Victoria
After a poor breakfast I hit the road again. Until Sotik it was through the mountains, passing villages and towns, dodging traffic, nothing special. Got again, happened already yesterday too, stopped by the police- just to chat 🙄🤪 In Sotik I stopped at a fuel station for a snack and being off the...
Lake Naivasha
After breakfast we all packed up and left to the nearby Lake Naivasha. First we went for some shopping and then Damian took Delfine as pillion for the remaining route. We went first the main road with lots of traffic, especially trucks. After 30km we forked of to the C707 that should take us around...
Looping around Mt Kenya
Hurray, felt better today, so after checkout we moved on. By the time we hit the road the legendary crazy Mhyrra driver are already through as they have to be at Wilson airport at 11am. Search for some YouTube videos on these insane drivers 🤯😱 The traffic was ok, scenery very green with a lot of t...
Going North
As the "Chief" had freshly picked Papayas from his tree 😋😋 Finally I figured out that he pronounces 5he word bird so different that I always understood bats 😂🙈 but once figured it out, some conversation about the area made sense 🤭🤭 After all packed up we tackled the dirt track back to the main...
Farmstay
As I had to pack up all my stuff back on the bike and saying again "See you soon" to Chris & Diane, it took me a while to leave Jungle Junction. Also were the group of German Campers pretty curious. Before I left, Chris checked my chain and the tyre pressure. I met Damian about 1hrs drive out of Nai...
Amboseli NP
I got up about 6am to find Kilimanjaro behind clouds 😒...so back to bed. As I couldn't really sleep I finally got up by 8h00 and started to pack up my things. After breakfast and check-out Nico checked on the guard, and he was fine - phew!! We went then on some sand tracks, following a route we got...
Little Amanya Camp
After we left the Masaai Village, we stopped at the Kimana Gate to visit the ladies room. Then we drove off to the junction to meet up with Damian again as he felt much better today (stopping the Malarone). On the way out we saw an elephant, zebras and giraffes. After we topped up food and water at...
Staying in a Masaai Village
Unfortunately this morning Damian didn't feel to well. From the symptoms I suspected the side effects of the Malarone tabletts. He will stay for the night and I would join Nico and Margot visiting the Masaai Village. Depending on Damians wellbeing we would decide tomorrow the next step. After breakf...
Voi-Chala
What a lovely ride today, but had its moments!!! In the morning there were no elephants, but some gazelles, but they were so alerted, I couldn't fetch my camera. We had breakfast on the first floor and suddenly there were the elephants 🤩🐘 It was so great watching them whilst having breakfast. Afte...
Distant Relatives Ecolodge & Backpackers
After a good day of rest, Damian and me wanted to visit another lodge along the coast, north of Mombasa. It is only 90km, but 3.5hrs due to google maps inclusive a ferry ride 😲😳 Once on the road to Mombasa we worked our way around all the TukTuks and Boda Bodas. The closer we came to Mombasa, whi...
Voi to Tiwi Beach
Finally about 7am I crawelled out of my tent, after a bad night sleep. One of the Rangers just passed by and said that there are the elephants coming. I thought he was just joking, but when I looked to where he pointed, there were indeed elephants coming. He explained that they always come in the mo...
Arrival of bike
Shortly after breakfast I received from Jane (Reno Global) the message to come to the airport to start the process of getting my bike out of customs. I took an Uber first to the Shopping Mall to deposit more cash on my Mpesa to pay later Jane. Then I took another Uber to get to the Airport, cargo se...