Continued

Set off from Nairobi to head for Tanzania, the road is supposed to be tarmac all the way , yeh right!!!!
Out of 300km about 100km of it is trail and a very dusty trail at that, if a truck was heading towards you it was really bad after it passed, visibility zero.
Cleared Kenyan customs into Tanzania with a minimum of fuss and headed off to Arusha which is right next to Kilimanjaro, the countryside you pass through to get here is spectacular, starts with rolling hills with the really big mountains behind them, Zebras munching away at the side of the road, a great days ride!!
we got to Arusha and found our campsite, its called Masai camp, run by a great guy called Darrel from new york ,once again great food, cold beers and a huge bar area that was very quiet when we arrived, we booked in to camp and we were the only tent on site, very peaceful. how wrong I was to assume this.
It seemed very strange putting a tent up on the 22nd of Dec, we are usually skiing in Italy by now and here we were in 90deg heat, it just seemed all wrong, but hey ho.
The same night 3 overland parties arrived, about 100 people all in, 2 massive pink buses, called the pink caravan adventures full of Swedes, driven by Andreas and Johanus and assisted by the quite lovely Anjelica, sorry about the spellings if they are wrong mates.
These are really nice people who we spent a few hours drinking with as they seemed to like our company and us theirs.
Thanks for the stickers folks(they must of crept up to our tents in the morning and put pink stickers on the back boxes) crept up because they left at 6am.
Top people, they do this route often and gave us valuable info for our next destination