Thursday 11 November 2010

Lake Tanganika - Kigoma, Tanzania

Now the reason for going to Kigoma was to try and arrange a ship to take us down close to Malawi, as Delilah had just had enough of the off-roads. The town itself is pretty pleasant, with a few banks and 2 really great hotels, as usual, we decided on the camping route, on the lake, it was amazing. Our attempts at finding a boat was pretty futile, we had to expand our search to private charters as the main ship leaving for that area was only departing in 8 days time, too long. The charter was no easier with some of the guys wanting over $3000 to take us down the river, ridiculous. Finally we decided we would do the road and if it got too bad for the bikes we would just get them put on the back of a truck to Tunduma, where the blacktop roads began again.
John, Lynda and their overland home

Well back to the campsite, the private beach had the clearest water I have ever seen, and luckily the spiders were small enough not to be too much of a bother. We also met a really lovely couple, Lynda and John from South Africa, travelling around Africa in a truck they had built in South Africa, we traided stories and got some great advice on places to visit.
Our private beach
A campsite with a view to die for
The view from the camp

1 comment:

  1. Hi, really nice pictures! We will be there in august 2011, to build there some houses for the local people. Perhaps u wanna check out & support our project: http://www.kigomaplus.com

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