Risumo falls - Beautiful Rwanda to Tanzania

Amazing roads in Rwanda

Passing through the boarders from Uganda to Rwanda was a breeze no problems, we were out of there in 30mins through both boarders. We did pass through about 10am which I'm sure helped a bit Wow, what a clean and beautiful country. The roads were excellent to travel on , people were smiley and happy to see us, it was great, I was a bit sad to leave so soon, but we decided to just travel through because we couldn't find any campsites. We later met up with a couple that had actually camped there though so it might have been nice.

Kigali football supporters

We headed to the capital, Kigali, it is amazing how developed it is.....we had lunch at the Bourbon cafe (like Charlie Boorman and Ewan Mcgregor in Long way down....boys..boys..boys). We then headed to the boarder of Tanzania.....we were running late but pushed on and managed to get there in time. Well thats to the Rwanda side.....there were trucks blocking the way to immigrations.....so we struggled for 10 -15 mins to get through. which we managed with no issues....we then headed to Tanzania and did the immigrations check but as we needed our Carnet stamps and the customs officers had gone home already, we could not pass, we missed them just by 10 mins.....we tried to get them to let us through or call the customs, but no luck, we just had to camp at the boarder....phew!!!!!.

Risumo falls on the border of Rwanda and Tanzania

Breakfast, a good start to a bad road

This did mean we could get into Tanzania quite early though, so a 7am start at the Boarder to get our carnets stamped to head onto the road towards Kusulu...... I was definitely not looking forward to this route. We heard that the road can be impossible to ride if there is a lot of rain.

We made it all the way to Kasulu after a hard day of riding on gravel. The boys were looking for banks to change money, but it become really hard as some of the banks did not change euros to the local currency. All countries seem to want American dollars and not euros. With no local currency, we could not head any further so decided to head to Kigoma (along Lake Tanganika), we heard from some locals that it was a better town to change money.

As usual, the rain stops as you get to your destination.

Just as the boys got out of the bank it started to rain....really heavy.....we headed to a Lodge which seemed ok. We arrived at the re drenched.......it was one of the worst rains we have experienced …..but we booked a room and stayed for the night.

We then decided to head off to Kigoma in the morning, the road to Kigoma was gravel until the last 25km tar.....what a pleasure , bring on the tar baby!!!

How I dislike the off road bits, you just never know what you're going to get............but hey...its all part of the trip.