DAY 3: 29th July Bujumbura(BU) to Kigoma(TZ)

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After sadly saying good-bye to American Cowboy, we start our way to get out of Bujumbura and find the Tanganyka coast road to Nyanza-Lac and the border. On the way to Nyanza Lac, the WANNAGOPRO moments create 2 new videos, the chicken killing and the cornfromthetrucktothecar!!!! (available when better internet connexion)

The motorbikes can drive easily through this road full of interruptions, but the car finally reaches Nyanza Lac, where we start to climb from 900 mt (lake Tanganyka altitude) to 1600 mt in very short distance. Once there, we say goodbye to Burundi with 30 km of very hard road, where even the motorbikes have fallen, and African Pirate and Mohammed experience the sand biting. The dust covers every cm of the car and the bodies of the riders, we hope Tanzania gives us some asphalt.

We say good-bye to Burundi with Pilipili lover trying to lower the Burundi flag from the border point. 

Right after a little more dust, we enter to Tanzania through Manyovu border crossing and we start to discover the benefits of crossing borders through less transited entry points. We luckily find very friendly border officers and we get TRANSIT VISA very easily, we have 7 days to cross Tanzania, which decreases the VISA from 50 to 30 USD.

We drink our first Kilimanjaro beer (room temperature) right after the border and make our ritual dance with amazed Tanzanians watching us.

Our destination, Kigoma, receives us with very good news. We have to get the entry documents for the vehicles in the customs of Kigoma due to the fact that the customs officer was not in the entry border, at Manyovu. Although the office closes at 5pm, the customs manager calls some responsible civil servants and gives us, within a reasonable period of time, the needed documents.

The arrival to Jakobssen beach lodge is also awesome. This dutch stablished in Kigoma since some years ago, give us, due to a mistake on the booking, a chalet and a tent. The atmosphere is more than perfect; Tanganyka Lake gives us a warmly welcome in its Tanzanian waters. We have the chance to swim until the sunset and prepare our dinner with solar power.  Even Jakobssen and his wife offer us some eggs from their own farm and we take them for tomorrow breakfast.

The day could not end as well as it has been, and we find the bad notice that the clutch of out Land Cruiser is dead. We will see how to manage it tomorrow.

Good night riders!