Daniel:
We made our first border crossing into Tanzania and only took about an hour to get throught the five checkpoints. First there was the checkpoint to complete the Carnette followed by the checkpoint at the gate to check that the Carnette was completed, and to complete things at the Kenya side the passport control. We then drove 6km through what we thought was no man's land to get to the Tanzania side, first the passport control and then the police check point where they again captured the info from the Carnette.
The scenery changed almost imediately. Suddenly we were surrounded by palm trees and beautiful green vegetation. And the most amazing thing of all, perfect roads with ROADSIGNS!!! The only thing missing was the roadsigns showing the maximum speed limit. We only saw 50km/h signs. A lot of them! You could not go more than 10km till you got into the next little village with it's own 50km/h sign, completed by rumbble strips at the beginning and end of the town and one speed bump somewhere in the middle.
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| Rally driver in action... |
We had breakfast while parked at a fillstation. Breakfast consisted of Jessica's delicious bananna bread, cottage cheese and juice. After filling up we had almost no Tanzanian shillings on us. This was a potential problem if we got pulled ove since they do spot fines in Tanzania. Jessica googled the speed limits and we found it to be 120km/h and 60km/h. I was not so sure about that since we have not seen any 60km/h signs at all. We stopped at the next police point and asked but after 2 minutes could still not get more than "fifty" out of the officer.
Jessica:
The rest of the journy was uneventful, but the traffic in Dar was epic. We were even able to work on out blog while stuck in traffic. We stayed with friends of mine, Asbey and Abram, who are missionaries in Mwanza. They aranged for us to stay at the AIM guest house where they also had an apartment. They were staying in Dar for a few months for Swahili language lessons as Abram was doing bible teaching in Mwanza. Ashby is 5 months pregnant!
On Sunday we were able to attend an international church pland called God's Tribe. They are having their services in the arobics room of a small local spa, complete with one wall of mirrors and the other overlooking the beach. After church we took two tuk-tuks looking for a place to have lunch. The first two we went to were either closed or have moved. We finaly ended up at Rodicio for a Brazilian meal. After eating way to much for lunch, Abram made us the most delicious smootheys for dinner, made from freshly squeezed coconut milk that he squuezed, bannan, pineapple and mango followed by maccarons made with chocolate, dates and coconut milk. I love staying with them as they are also gluten free.
Tomorrow we will be heading for point south and cooler weather.
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