Burundi

First time in Burundi (love it when I can say that!), what a lush, beautiful, hilly country, with great main roads (didn’t expect that!).  The cyclist in Burundi are the fittest I have ever come across. Steep heavy loads, no gears.  They do grab the odd right where possible

The past 2 days we have been treated to private tribal and drum dances (like to think we are special, but really not a lot of tourists here …).

A trip to a team plantation

A bit of bunder bashing with the cars through the Parc de la Ruvubu (loved that).

Became a Queen with my King Lassie by my side! Off to Bujumbura tomorrow.

And a visit to a pigmy village, quite sad, cute little kids but a lot of the looked like they were sick.

I really enjoyed Burundi, it’s beautiful green rolling hills, tea plantations and waterfalls.

We left this morning at 5am and drove along Lake Tanganyika the DRC shadowing us the whole way. 17 hours later we arrived at Kativi NP in Tanzania a little tired…). This has been an interesting drive, the most remote, shocking roads we gave been on, 100 & 100s km of nothing, nobody, nada (you have no idea how weird that is in Africa!) One section was so muddy one car got stuck in the mud going around a stuck truck, we had to use a tree to winch her out, I got stuck deep but manage to reverse out (go girl!!). I towed my first car out of the mud ( the driver didn’t even say thank you, but the scots with him did go scouts!!!). Then after 500m of slipping and sliding 90-180 degrees left and right through 2ft+ deep mud ruts we managed to get out of this hectic muddy section (was a little sad as it was so much fun, sadly didn’t get photos needed both hands on the wheel!!). The next 4 hours was still mud and potholes but sadly not so much slipping and sliding – hopefully, more mud tomorrow as we head to Zambia…