South Lake Malawi and Lilongwe

We moved on from the posh hotel, Chintheche inn, run by Bronie and John to a backpacker place called cool runnings180km south, run by a lady called Sam, very chilled out gaff,
we met 4 volunteer nurses, Sioban, Meya, Petra and sorry, forgot blondies name, I blame the drink!!!!, and had a top night out with them,(hi girls!!!) we really did drink the bar dry between us!!!! a lot of guitar playing, singing etc
We are now in Lilongwe waiting for our passports for Mozambique, we pick them up in 1hr and we move on tomorrow heading towards Blantyre where we will stop for a few days and then move on to Mozambique, there is a Plataeu on the way I want to explore its at 2000mtrs and the views are supposed to be special.
Thats it for now Pete n Bruce

Back again

The owners of this place have kindly let me use this again as its not so busy in the office now.
Tanzania is a fantastic country and the southern highlands we have just rode through are so fertile its hard to understand why anybody in this continent goes hungry,
it is so beautiful I have had to stop taking photos as its just another shot of paradise, the ride into Malawi is as good if not better.
We have decided to ride south to Durban and figure out our next move from there, malawi is great but the hassle factor is about 10!!!!!
Its strange but it didn,t really happen in Kenya or Tanzania, but here it can be quite agressive, and my threshold is low at the moment so its probably a good idea to get out of here.

In malawi and safe but the internet is crap

Just a quick one as the hotel we are in has kindly let us use their computer.
The easiest border crossing ever, Tanzania to Malawi, 20minutes

Morogoro and onwards, football and wildlife

Left the heat humidity and dust of Dar and arrived at Morogoro just outside the merkani(spelling) national park to spend the night and also to take in some local flavour via watching the UTD v Chelsea match in a local bar
These chaps are somewhat excitable in these bars and are usually great fun, it was a great night 200 people crammed in to the bar, 1 woman, 1 white chap, we really got well looked after after their initial shock, at first they thought we were more interesting than what was on tv.

A cracking night out and a good result!!!

A really early start the next morning, 6am and headed off to the reserve, bloody brilliant nobody tried to stop us and it was free,
Elephants, baboons, wildebeast, zebras, wart hogs and a whole lot more but no big cats!!
Arrived in Iringa to spend a couple of nights and update this, this is the 2nd cyber cafe that we have tried and its soooooooooo slow, my second hour is up and its beer o,clock, Ps got piss wet through yesterday for the first time since Sierra leone, hope this makes the English feel a bit better

On from Arusha

We left Arusha and headed off through the mountains to see if we could get in the kilimanjaro park by the back entrance, No chance, after 45km of trail and getting through the first gate we got turned back with the explanation that there are wild animals in there, they had to be joking, people are hiking up it for charity.
Back to Moshi for the night with our bikes between our legs and to think out a plan B

Plan B , we headed off to Loshoto up another range of mountains to try our luck there at getting up a mountain, ANY MOUNTAIN!!!!!!!
Well what a bonus, Loshoto is trail riders paradise, we could ride all day without seeing a park ranger and had a fantastic few days there,

Onwards to Dar es salam for my first view of the Indian ocean, where we plotted up at a beach hut for a few days RR having been to see Ruvu ranch where Bruce spent her first 2 yrs and also visited the Aga khan hospital where she was born.
Unimpressed with the heat and humidity of Dar we have headed off to the mountains yet again but this time heading south west towards malawi