Day 7: Friday 24/06/05

On the road again. 5 Am. now the main adventure was to start. We head to Mozambique to join Kingsley Holgate and his team at the dhow. The problem is that the roads in northern Mozambique are shyte dirt roads and the towns are few and far between. The side of the roads are so congested that trying to set up camp just anywhere would be virtually impossible.

We averaged about 60km/hr. by night fall we’d made it to a small town called Ribaue. ‘Por favor, the locals no comprende the English’ and couldn’t tell us of any campsites in the area and it’s pure luck that the first white face we see takes us to where himself and a team of geologists are stationed and they were more than hospitable and generous, putting up extra tents for us and inviting us to join them for dinner. DIDN’T SLEEP well again… dreams nightmares dreams!!!!