From Kenya to Sud africa with a van by Daniele Somenzi (2nd part)
Stato: TANZANIA (TZ)
20 km north of the capital of Tanzania, in a camp protected by networks of iron and guards, we also found 3 other trucks from other tour companies that are similar to nostri.La ere chosen to go 3 days in Zanzibar, or stay with the boat li. Nicola and I have opted to stay. With the bike I did Gaziello different trip with attorno.e dinghy that I had brought, remate by hand at sea. we were on duty to make the cooks 2 days for 2 of us Italians, the food we cooked and 'was very much appreciated, but the sandwiches of Linzy.Col truck we went for the 20 km separating the campground from Dar es salaam to recover children returning by boat from Zanzibar and the return, its embassies in the area of a leaf of The pig, it breaks. In a couple of hours the two drivers to take over, thank goodness they had a spare. Cable current hits the top of the truck in the evening already close to camp and makes sparks go go with all of us thank goodness we did not fulminates with rubber tires, too, had to try Mah Finally we have broken the next morning after a week of boarding and boredom, maybe it was even better than me and we were in Zanzibar Nicola.
km km and eight hours for trucks to 8th at the usual 13 to stop for lunch at the edge of the truck made by tost bread and beans and maybe some fruit, and day after day we arrived in Malawi, Alle border are problems because some of us with the face full of piercings and hair from drug addicts obviously, had to respect the rules of that country that prohibits such things.
To the north of Lake Malawi spend the first night, we are told not to swim in the lake because the Bilasia, a disease from water is still present, manon in the center and south of the lake.
I giornim pass, we have never eaten so much dust, the truck completely open and no air conditioning course that only 2 drivers are available in the cabin, but this is africa and so must be.
That day who was on duty in the kitchen, decided to buy chickens from the blacks that sold for cooking, but they were still alive and released after a few km from the snare to the feet, fleeing everywhere since Jun truck, triggering a search and chicken hunt by all of us. shortly after the poor have suffered, what the fate had decided for them, and have become very good then, but it is for our palates.
A monkey I stop a few days, we are just a few miles from Lilongue, Lake monkeys with the company that we were very good, my canottino has been very successful, the driver with our driver female Dragomán (other company) if you've enjoyed bevendosi the usual beer.
The life of Truck africa now is our habit, much freedom, and vision of landscape as beautiful in nature, but horrible when in town.
Hours of trucks for all of us were the most ugly thing, 8-10 hours a day, or still like a week in Dar es salaam, sin.
From Malawi we enter into Zambia, the Customs everything passed ok losing little time, here we were only 2 days of transit, not finding a good place to camp for Steve, he approached the left edge of the road and a 2 meters dall'asfalto we have, that night, put the tents, just as well that there was no traffic, we were still far from Lusaka.
City spent the next day, doing stage at noon for lunch and a brief visit.
As we approached to Livingstone and Victoria Falls, in all of us grew the desire to get there right away, because a few days to stop, to the waterfalls here has allowed us to make a good safari on horseback, and a full day of rafting down the rapids of the Zambezi river, and I with a local guide also half-day 4x4 safari in the nearby national park in victoria falls.
every morning I got up early and with my pedal bike Graziella far and wide for the country, the bridge connecting Zambia to Zimbabwe, èteatro the jumper in the vacuum of bunga jumping, Nicholas I and we were tempted to do so, but jump to $ 100 were too many.
A Frenchman who was in Zimbabwe them for work, wanted Graziella my bike to go to work and saw that I had to remain without intanzione, I shot a figure that was too high, £ 220 thousand for a bike with contakm old burglary but andante.
Bè him, I said yes immediately, with such an offer I could not pull back, so I accepted.
Start from Zimbabwe and Botswana are entering for the first time in my life, even here as in all other states passed, driving on the left side of the road. They go to the border with the van in a puddle for disinfecting the wheels and all of us with the soles of shoes on a damp rag to remove the bacilli Zimbabweans.
We are the first of November beginning of the rainy season, and looks after some weeks of sun, the first of a few short minutes acqazzone alleviates drought.
In camp botswana us in a magical landscape of the African acacia trees etc, I like now, there are Termitai tall frame, the truck is bogged down in mud and we all go.
Once in Maun, we lodge safari camp to Iceland, along dell'okavango delta, donkeys, braying here the night to determine their territories and to break us who sleep, are considered sacred animals here, you see them on the streets as we have dogs.
Three-quarters of the group enters the delta with 2 small cessna aircraft to move a couple of nights to do the safari, while Steve will take advantage for a tire change, seen here that cost less, throughout the trip as we exploded bombs 7 and assure that appears to be a bomb.
Nicola and I decided to tour away from africa Truck and enter nell'okavango for 3 nights over land and speedboat at half the price that others have argued for just 2 nights.
We got back from Steve even a few dollars of the kitty, which is the common case, since we would not have gone with them for a week to Harare at the end of the tour.
Hello hello to the truck and we go with a guide fornitaci BY safari lodge, and here begins an adventure that was incredible. total nature, and indeed too kind.
Sem driving black spurs with a stick stand canoeing mokoro call, and we sit a 2 in front of the other, the silence with the sound of that caresses the boat in a carved tree trunk, it's too good . little more in there, browsing sull'acqa clear of the Okavango, including water lilies and algae, we do a dive and discover that what we had said is true, that the acqa is good to drink, and do so for the remaining 3 days, the orange in tin manco we drink. but the fun was yet to come.
The safari consists of long walks with Sam, munitio only a stick, and this is precisely the point. Sam does not have a rifle or a pistol and asleep animals Nicola is I who asked us how we would have done if we had inconreato lions, Sem, told us that the lions have not met, then shortly after we showed them the footprints Mah!
Bè Nicola and I had decided that if we had encountered the lion, we would have given the meal in Sem, Sem, however, that I thought the same thing about us.
Well in 4 days and 3 nights, however we have not seen, even if every night were to see us just out of our tents le iene.