In the Buffalo Springs reserve, Samburu, North of Kenya, We live unique moments. They were for the calm and loneliness of all that environment that we visited in private. I think I will never forget the two safaris I made at dawn, While Victor preferred to continue in bed, Without crossing with a single car. I listened to the noise that birds make when they stir the branches or splash in the water of the crocodiles. That were hours when loneliness became a rare privilege, to have outside and inside the car a wild Africa in property.
Then we returned to Samburu Simba Lodge, in which we were the only clients, And we watched the Elefante herds drink in a very close embroiler and we made night talking with the workers of a magnificent place in which the treatment was excellent. It was for real and warm. After two nights we went to Nairobi.
Unable to hide their defects that in my judgment is one of its great virtues
In the capital we were passing, Maybe because in Nairobi I am always feeling that one is passing. It is a large city, scratched and attractive that is unable to hide its defects what in my opinion is one of its great virtues. My friends from Kobo Safaris recommended the EKA hotel, on the righteous road of southern Kenya to which I was directed, And there we made a comfortable stop to catch up with the rest of the world after a keyboard and a screen.
Then we march to both of them, A park where I was in October that I liked it so much that I had to share with my friend and travel companion. "My priority is to climb the Kilimanjaro", He once told me as he says all, full of enthusiasm that goes out and turns on reality. We did not upload it, But we slept two nights under his gaze at the Kibo Safari Camp, where we ended up taking a worker to the hospital while explaining that “I left my husband because it was a vague. He doesn't like working, We do not like to work and that's why we are poor. I take care of my children now and I hope to give them some studies that instill in them the value of the job ”, The vehement of the vehement of 22 years.
We do not like to work and that's why we are poor
And so we passed to Tanzania and somehow the haste began. They were hurry with some calm, But after the delays of Egypt we had to put an end date of the trip: 2 June. A fact that changed everything. We were less free and we had to choose what had some way to do a thousand resignations also.
"Tanzania will be the great sacrificed. You know her and I can go there from Mozambique whenever I want ", Victor said. We agree, like other things that we do not meet later since in the genetics of this expedition is to make the shatter plans to rebuild them as we want, And we follow our African path that included crossing three countries in 10 days. "On each site we will choose an icon", I already proposed in a part of the trip that I know almost whole.
In Tanzania we chose that we would visit Ruaha's National Park, The largest in the country since Sloous is a reserve. We sleep first in Morogoro, After a long car in which we left large mountains to the left and a tanzania of thick tropical vegetation, And we get to Ruaha. By chance we stay at the Hill Top, A lodge from which the whole park was contemplated and where we enjoyed the best sunset that I remember in my life. On one side the sun went out and created a volcano in the sky; The other was the full moon, immense, As if he wanted not to miss so much beauty. It was impressive, Like the great dinner that prepared us in an hour unexpected travelers in a place that there was no one.
We enjoy the best sunset that I remember in my life
The next morning we enter Ruaha, where nobody entered three days, Advantages of traveling in May, And we discover a fascinating park. Ruaha is a blunt park, With a serene beauty that spreads to the shore of a river full of life. I deserved to stay there for more than one night, But we didn't have time and we were on the way to Malaui, that at the last minute we changed the plan and put this place on the route under the excuse that “we know very well the south, Why not see the north?”.
And there came the worst of the trip. The Tanzana police are overwhelmingly corrupt and malicious. I thought there was no worse police than Mozambique's, where I live, But here the hunt is made with a bad face and impudence. We had in 250 Kilometers six fines, four more than in all the rest of the trip together, And four others we fought after a thousand discussions. Many were absurd, like that of a small blow to a crystal that is double or that of being stopped twice by two controls on each side of a slope, less than a kilometer. It was a shameless robbery, infamous, coarse. The whole country is full of areas of 30 kilometers per hour without meaning in which the signals are not clear. The less clear it is, There appears a fool with his radar pistol offering negotiating the infraction.
The Tanzana police are overwhelmingly corrupt and malicious
And that exhausts you and tired of a country, What beautiful places there are many in the world, And we decided to run more to leave. In Kenia everything had been perfect, All aids even police, And here after fine not bringing a belt to Victor who was going as a passenger and did not have time to place it because they had fined us 800 meters back, The agent told me to go to our country, something we did with speed.
Before we sleep in Mbeya, In one of the worst holes in this collection of holes in which he has converted this trip. It was a new hotel, strainer, the 15 the fourth euros, I had a restaurant with big bows on chairs and shiny boxes on the parking. But, We soon discovered that our room smelled of sewage. Clean hole in the floor which was the toilet gave off an odor that filled the small room, almost giving arcades. We decided that it was late and we were exhausted so we went to the restaurant to dinner and we would tire.
We soon discovered that our room smelled of sewer
We asked for a barbecue that told me that he was carrying chicken and veal and Victor a pentot to the pepper. They brought us a Russian steak covered with a very spicy and abundant sauce to Victor and my little chicken and a lot of pieces of liver. We laugh. Of course nobody apologized for anything or thought that the gleaming and cheesy hotel may have a room that did not smell like shit and could serve the food that puts in the letter. When you have been living in this continent for more than four years, the tourist "This is Africa" ??more difficult. This was our last night in the beautiful Tanzania.
