We have managed to pack just one big bag and a couple of small ones for this trip, and we are armed with mango, dough balls and pink wafer biscuits for the journey ahead.
The luxury part of our semi-luxury bus seems to come from the fact that animals aren’t allowed on board, and that we get given a complimentary bottle of water. Lucky us!
We have seats just behind the driver, so have a wonderful view of life, and can see death coming too! 
2 hours in and we are still in Dar, traffic is bad and we keep stopping to pick up people. I have a feeling these are the mates of the driver after a free ride.
3 hours in and we are now in the countryside. Very green, deep orangey red soil, and people. People everywhere, walking, Massai men with sticks and spears and local women with bundles of wood on their heads. Amazing!
4 hours in and we have our first stop in Morogoro. A quick 5 minute stop for a bathroom break and on we went. Then 45 minutes down the road we come to Mikumi, a national park. I am afraid I don’t have pictures of the cool signs on arrival as I was too busy munching on pink wafers.
Look left, giraffes! One, two, three...... wait more on the right!
Elephants, 5 just by the road. Elephants! More of them over there.
Giraffes, there and there.
Gazelles and other deer here there and everywhere! WOW
Arms, is that a Rhino? NO, it can’t be. Wait, maybe, Yes is it? At this point we must state that we 100% believe we saw a solitary Rhino grazing. However, everyone we have seen since and told has laughed at us and explained how it is impossible. Only half a tick allowed!
We leave the park and continue to drive; through stunning hilly countryside and amazing small mud hut villages and still people are walking everywhere.
7 hours in and we stop again, in Baobab Valley, a small valley with these amazing trees with swollen trunks everywhere. Lots of baboons everywhere too.
We continue to drive, this time stopping every 10 minutes for roadwork’s, but with the sun setting the bus stops at the side of the road and we disembark.
Welcome to Riverside Campsite.
Dinner had been saved which was a real delight, especially as the wafers had lost their appeal. Then in the pitch black we find our home for the next two weeks, a wooden banda, and a TV room where we manage to catch the last 30minutes of Arsenal vs Man Utd. Crazy I know.
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