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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...