Luckily, we arrived at Sekenani Gate just on time to see and experience the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara National Reserve. It is an iconic wildlife event, featuring over a million wildebeest, zebras, and other herbivores migrating in a circular route between the Serengeti National...
We spent 12 days in Nairobi fixing our truck. The original plan was to change the engine oil, as we had already done everything before the last break. However, as usual, we found many other things that stopped working or broke on their own. We repaired the window nets, the leaking fuel...
After refilling our water tank and refueling diesel at Total (3179 TZS / liter) in Mwanza, it took us five hours to travel on a good tarmac road to reach the Isibania Border situated in Northern Tanzania. It is the usual crossing point between the Masai Mara National Park and the...
We arrived in the late afternoon in Tanzania’s second-largest city, Mwanza, known as ‘the City of Rock’. It is the economic heart of the lake region, situated on the shore of Lake Victoria, surrounded by hills strewn with enormous boulders. Afternoon traffic was...
We spent a considerable amount of time on the shores of Lake Victoria, traveling for three months through Kenya and Uganda, and never made a post about this majestic lake. Here we go on our final approach to Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa and the primary source of the Nile...
We woke up early to drive 300 kilometers to Mwanza in one day. We were unsure if the road would be rough, as we had experienced two days ago on the stretch from the Kabanga border to Lusahunga. However, to our surprise, from Lusahunga, we drove all the way on a lovely, wide tarmac road to...
We decided to overnight again next to the Alpha Hotel in Kabanga. We took our dinner and fixed our internet at the shop opposite the hotel. The next day, we drove towards Mwanza, but the road was terrible. It was a 5-hour journey of heavy off-roading through a rough, bumpy dirt road...
We arrived at the border with expired transit visas (3 days validity). According to all officers at the Kobero border, we were initially supposed to prolong them in Bujumbura, where the immigration office was supposed to be open on weekends. We specially asked for that information on our...
Gitega, formerly Kitega, is the political capital of Burundi. It is located in the country’s center, in the Burundian central plateau, roughly 62 kilometres east of Bujumbura. It is the country’s fourth largest city and the former royal capital of the Kingdom of Burundi until...
After descending from the mountains, we arrived in Bujumbura on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, the second deepest lake in the world after Lake Baikal. The country’s largest city, Bujumbura, was the capital until 2019, when it was designed as the economic capital. It lies...