Long day on the road

Got woken up by raindrops coming through my tent windows landing on my sweaty body. It took a few seconds to react. I checked the time, 02.30. Hmmm...

Crawled out to put the rain cover on the tent, only to find there wasn't one by my tent. Strange since I did put it in the bag when I packed it up in Bagamoyo. Anyway. I helped some of the others to get theirs on and I closed my windows and door and hoped for the best.

The rain wasn't too heavy and it disappeared rather, just to come back a bit heavier shortly after. Together with some thunder.

I struggled to get back to sleep and was constantly checking that my tent didn't leak. 

Not until a few hours later I got back to a deeper sleep, but at 05.30 it was time to get the day started. I was still dry from the rain.

By 7 o'clock we were packed up and on the road again. We had to go back towards Dar Es Salaam and go round the way we "short cutted" yesterday by taking the small ferry. 

Shortly after we departures we met some rain, and then more rain, some thunder and lightning. The roads were flooded at times and traffic very slow. 

After six hours driving we stopped for lunch and had only got 100 km out of our 280 for today.

I had set my mind from the beginning today, that it was to be a pretty long day sitting and bouncing around in our Morrison so the last part went ok after all. 

I'm trying to take in as much as I can from the environment and surroundings as it passes by outside my window.

We did a shopping stop at a "real" mall, the first one I've seen since this adventure started. The pantry and fridge got stocked up and so did we passengers. 

The last 50 km to our camp went through a National Park, so we could spend it looking for animals. We were not allowed to stop but we got to see a few while driving.

As we got to camp me and my newly arrived roomie put up our tent and moved in for the night. 

A lovely dinner was served and a great, but little too hot for the area, bonfire was lit for the evening. Some of us spent time there, while others fought for the wifi.

I signed up for a game drive in the morning so a shower and sleep was next on my agenda. The shower was a bit so so. About twenty different kind of bugs and very very many of each kind had decided that our bathrooms was a great place for the night. I don't freak out by bugs, but having a shower in these masses was, how should I say it, not pleasant! 

But hey, as we say: "It's part of the adventure!" :)