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Itumba

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    • The finite loop of street food

      January 4, 2022 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      I decide to take a rather rough road from Singida to Mbeya via Rungwa along three big game reserves. It takes me 2.5 days. Holy Banana! Theoretically it's just nothing but trees to the left and right. Practically the locals tend to have logged whatever they could get. Forest reserves and these game reserves make an exception.

      Of 400 km dirt road 320 km are "good dirt" which means "freshly graded" and "not mudded". The rest I better do not talk about. The biggest relief is that I just pass 10 cars and 3 buses on these 400 km. The road is mine! A deep dive into the inner me. Enough time for self-analysis and ancient Metal.

      At Mwamagembe ranger post I overnight for free and learn a lot about the landscape from my hosts, and about hunting activities. Interestingly, at night I wake up and have to vomit out of my car. Apparently some street food decided to get back out on the street. Or it was the three-day-old partly fermented ginger tea from my thermos? Shit happens.

      At the headquarters I learn that Rungwa game reserve is indeed pretty interesting! It sources rivers which drain into lake Tanganyika and into the Indian Ocean. Thus, you can see it as "the very centre of Tanzania". In dry season I have to return and then it is possible to drive all the way through Ruaha national park into Rungwa game reserve and further west to lake Tanganyika without having to use any of these boring tarred roads :D
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