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Day 12 : 13 June 2004 - Tunduma (Zambia border) to
Mbeya 98 km
Day 13 : 14 June 2004 - Mbeya to Mafinga to Kisolanza
Farm 272 km
Day 14 : 15 June 2004 - Kisolanza to Isimila to Iringa
to Ruaha Park (Msembe) 163 km
Day 15 : 16 June 2004 - Ruaha National Park (Msembe)
64 km
Day 16 : 17 June 2004 - Msembe to Mpululu (Ruaha National
Park) 119 km
Day 17 : 18 June 2004 - Mpululu (Ruaha Park) to Rungwa
(Rungwa Game Res) 165 km
Day 18 : 19 June 2004 - Rungwa to Itigi 184 km
Day 19 : 20 June 2004 - Itigi to Singida 110 km
Day 20 : 21 June 2004 - Singida to Igunga 135 km
Day 21 : 22 June 2004 - Igunga to Nzega to Kahama
to Tinde (Jomu) 242 km
Day 22 : 23 June 2004 - Tinde (Grinaker Construction
Camp) -
Day 23 : 24 June 2004 - Tinde to Kahama to Lusahunga
(Chema Honey Farm) 258 km
Day 24 : 25 June 2004 - Lusahunga to Rusumo Falls
(Rwandan Border) 90 km
Total nights - 12
Total kilometers – 1 900 km
Currency : Tanzanian Shilling (TSh)
Exchange rate : 1 US$ = 1090 TSh
Fuel cost per litre : 805 TSh
Total cost for country : 650.72 US$
Country cost per day : 54.23 US$
Overall average cost per day : 75.42 US$
Highlight : Visiting Ruaha Park (camping on edge of
Great Ruaha River)
& crossing Rungwa Game Reserve from east to west
Low point : James & Heleen deciding to return
to RSA from Ruaha Park
Although the parks / game reserves are excellent,
the very high cost for foreign tourists / foreign
registered vehicles seem to be too exorbitant / overpriced.
Very little information is available from tourist
guide books for western Tanzania, which complicates
planning for visiting this area. Furthermore at the
time of our visit we were advised against traveling
to the far west (Tabora region) due to the situation
in the DRC. We would have liked to visit the David
Livingstone Museum in Tabora.
Except for a few stretches of the main road network
in western Tanzania, the roads are in general appalling
to the point of almost undrivable. The traditional
“Cape to Cairo” road from Mbeya to Singida is a combination
of driving across rock outcrops and through huge potholes,
always covered in a thick layer of dust.
The Ruaha Park and especially the Rungwa Game Reserve
are invested with biting tsetse flies that makes traveling
through such low lying areas quite uncomfortable unless
you are inside an airconditioned vehicle. Nevertheless,
we still appreciated the opportunity to be able to
visit these areas; it contains a never ending diversity
of vegetation and scenery.
We found the Tanzanian people extremely friendly and
helpful.
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