Next 720km on gravel.....Great!!! I wasn't too keen, and Lindsay decided that we should ride it with Andre, even though I felt strongly that the trip on the boat would have been better. Anyway.......the fist 60 to 160km were ok.....until we reached the loose sand.....NIGHTMARE!!!! I fell 7 times....my poor bike come out the worst....the panniers were so messed up.....damn road. I found it soooo much harder then the road in Kenya, Moyale to Marsibit.
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| This is still the good stuff, with lots to see as well. |
We eventually reached Mpanda.....where Lindsay and myself decided to stay to fix my bike in the morning and check the rest of the way out. I even told Lindsay maybe its a good idea to put the bikes on a truck all the way down. We spoke to the locals and sussed out the weather and we then decided to ride the next morning early and just take it easy.
We rode through the Katavi National Park, where we were lucky to see buffalo , elephants, monkeys and buck.....which was great …......but not always possible when your eyes are on the road all the time.
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| Our beautiful compound campsite in the morning |
We then continued on and passed Sumbawanaga....the road so far was not too bad, so we headed on....towards Tunduma. The next section was definitely worse, with loads of sand and pot holes that delayed us a lot......it started getting late and we were deciding where to stay for the night.......I suggested that we stay close to a village......however we passed a roadworks site compound (Chinese company) with trucks and decided to pull in, just in time to catch the site manager and asked if we could camp in the compound. He agreed for us to stay and even supplied us with bottled water and beers even when we didn't have any cash on us.......they were a great help.
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