DAY 13 (Dec 13/210km) Homebound

Ready for the road

We spent a long time this morning pondering our next move. Our initial plan was to reach Mombasa in Kenya. A combination of the fun we had in Dar, home sickness, wanting to spend Christmas with our families, complications and unplanned interruptions you encounter travelling Africa settled the issue. We decided to head back home.

Tumi was not so impressed with Thendo taking his time to get on the bike

We left Dar at midday and getting out is as a nightmare as getting in. We rode for 200km and reached Morogoro 4 hours later with 80% of the ride in dense traffic and heavy rain.

Somafco

Thendo’s wife spent many years in Morogoro’s Mazimbu village at an ANC camp in exile.  She studied at the famous school named after Solomon Mahlangu, SOMAFCO. For this reason Thendo
insisted we could not pass this place without going in. The ANC Camp was donated to the Tanzanian government who have turned it into an Agricultural college. Most if not all the infrastructure is still intact, including buildings and street names. The street names are named after ANC struggle heroes.

We realised that we would have to put up in Morogoro and a certain gentleman who works for APOPO, a landmine demining organisation doing work in Mozambique, Angola, Thailand and Cambodia helped us to find accommodation at the local University. Dinner was at the University’s student cafeteria.