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| Day 32, 2011/06/02 |
Will we ever learn! If the road is shown on the map as been secondary, why would it be tar! Yeah, we decided to take a shorter route, and cut out a fair section of the A7, by going north via Bagamoyo. The first 80 km were lovely tar road. The only problem was that we ha to deal with Dar traffic. Leaving at 9 am, thought things would be better. Well as for that thought! What a nightmare! Traffic just does it's own thing. I stopped at a red light only to be almost knocked over by a flying minibus taxi, who swerved to avoid me and went straight through the traffic light,while hooting and shouting at me. Eventually, I just did what ever everyone else around me did. If they went through red, i did, if they stopped,which was almost never, so did I!
Anyway,after clearing the traffic eventually, the road settled down to a lovely tarred section of road, which lasted up until Bagamoyo. Then,it became one of those horrible roads which has never been graded in its entire life! The kind were if you manage to average 20 km in an hour,it was good going. Well I guess it was not raining, so the gods were smiling down on us, I guess.
Three hours later,we eventually hit the main tar road going north, and once again, like on many other occasions on this trip, I feel like getting down only knees and kissing the Tarmac! After a quick plate of chips for lunch at one of the roadside food stores, it is back on the bike for remaining 250 km. It is nice to be on a nice, well maintained road again, and we are able to sit at close to 100 km/h. The scenery slowly changes and becomes mountainous and lovely and green. We come across huge pineapple plantations. So big that,they stretch from on horizon to the next. A very impressive sight.
The overnight spot is a place called Green Hills, well that is where the Canadian bikers were going to stay. However, on arrival, we discover that has closed down, and are shown away. No fear, we will just search for something else on the GPS. We find something, and head of further down the road however, the place we eventually find is very dodgy looking and we decide to try another place. The next place,is about 2 km up the mountain on a dirt road. On arrival, we find another campsite that has closed down and been deserted. The only difference here,is that there is no one around. So David and I decide to do our first "bush camp" of the trip. Because of the altitude here, the air temp is lovely and cool, and the absence of humidity for once is a pleasure!
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