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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Mar 23, 2020, 8:29 AM
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 1,879 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.504084, 38.217184°30’15” S 38°13’2” E
Day 97
Going to hell. Not.
March 23, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
The Zanzibar flight is restricted to 50 persons and primarily designated for island tourists. According to the embassy my chances to get a slot are small so I don't risk all the stress getting there in half the time I would need. The mainland airport in Dar-es-Salaam is still in regular operation even though the flights to Germany are sparse with obscure transits for prices I would not pay right now where "thinks are still normal here". There might be skylifts planned later for all the other volunteers and expats scattered around but Tanzania has low priority at this moment. The embassy is currently gathering info about all people left in the country. All land borders are closed so whatever I will be doing, it'll all be branded "Tanzanian experience 2.0" ;-)

As for now, I keep enjoying my coffee and fix some pending issues around the car. Maybe I continue tomorrow. Maybe not. This spot is just too pretty!

If necessary, from here I can be in Dar within one day and the chances are high that my new mechanics' friends could take care of my car at their well-guared lawn.Read more
Traveler Just carry on! Stay in your place and enjoy your coffee. There won`t be a better situation for you in Europe - take the Kilimanjaro-challenge!
3/23/20Reply
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Safari Safi
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- Dec 16, 2022
- ⛅ 28 °C
- Altitude: 1,810 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.502438, 38.2169574°30’9” S 38°13’1” E
Day 11
Mambo View Point is where I belong
December 16, 2022 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
On my way to Kilimanjaro Airport were I will be picking up Franziska in two days I visit my beloved second home at Mambo View Point where I say hello to Dagmara and her staff. What a great feeling to be back here again! Tears start to flow when I walk up to the cottage where I stayed 3.5 months back in 2020. Even more tears when I walk further to the view point overlooking Pare mountains. Speechless!Read more
Ein alter T2a als Schlafzimmer, super. Scheint ja blechmäßig noch gut beieinander zu sein, bis auf etwas Flugrost. [Robert]
1/6/23Reply
Michi, der Ich werde wohl wiederkommen müssen, um das Endergebnis näher unter die Lupe nehmen zu können 😁
1/8/23Reply
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Jun 25, 2020, 6:30 PM
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 191
"Zum Glück kam Corona!"
June 25, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Philipp says as we enjoy our last sunset beer at MamboViewPoint. While Europe and the rest of the world freaked out in self-flagellation we probably shared the three most unforgettable months of our lives up here in peace. Cheers!Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Jun 22, 2020, 3:57 PM
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 188
Cool!
June 22, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The choice to build my car’s interior from wood proves to be a good one. It is way more robust than expected – even the partly used poplar multiplex – and I can extend it anytime. Today I finally managed to neatly integrate the cooler box which I bought in Cape Town. Since then it was always flying around which is especially annoying when not having a fully packed car, meaning, when travelling alone. So, this weekend I was the main customer of the MamboViewPoint carpentry. It took half a day of engineering and another half day to build this thing. I cut a part out of my upper bed layer and reused this as base plate for the fridge unit. There were various reasons for not centring the fridge in the middle of the car with the major being the possibility to use one of the heavy seat screws to fasten the plate to the ground. Also, it keeps a nice big gap between the seats to reach in the back under the bed from the front seat row. Somebody always hides a snack box there ;-) The small fridge is unmovably aligned on the wooden base and simply tied down with two Seilflechter straps. Dat sitzt bombenfest, Digga! I like to tie down stuff. It’s so stupid and simplifies all kinds of designs in regard of rattle-free installation in the car. The bed is the best example. The fridge’s lid is super-stupidly designed because it’s not flat but still, you don’t really feel it when lying on the bed. It is easy reachable by quickly uplifting the cushions. Done.Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Jun 19, 2020, 8:41 AM
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 185
Between heaven and hell
June 19, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Hellyeah, I love far from home office! Between all those video conferencing bla bla bla appointments there is always time for some crazygoing. "Oh, sorry guys, my mobile internet connection is about to break down, see ya t'morrow!". And off I go out of my cottage to fire up my all-time favourite Swedish Trangia storm stove which I pimped with an Optimus Nova multifuel burner some 10 years ago. Here around Zambia and Tanzania you find pure kerosene (petroleum) at every second fuel station for 0.5 EUR per litre and this stuff burns pretty cleanly. I can cook for 8-14 days on just half a litre of kerosene.

For two weeks now I'm experimenting with sour dough bread and it is just about time to test if baking bread would also be possible on the road without a real oven. Both test prove positive. The first subject has a higher portion of whole-grain wheat which I also used to start the sour dough and it raises excessively so that I have to put a stone on the lid. In this first round I use a flat stone deflector to scatter the flames in order for the dough not to burn at the bottom of the pot. Works well but baking time is nearly 1.5 hours and consumes around 40 grams of kerosene. But!! This first camping bread from a rather soggy dough is far the best of all I have baked so far! Unbeaten in juiciness, aroma, texture, satisfaction! Cut a slice, apply olive oil, salt ... and off you go straight to heaven.

The second subject is a pure white wheat dough which is more reluctant to raise – probably due to the sour dough having been started with whole-grain flour initially – but now my deflector shield is a thin metal piece cut from a broken kitchen grater. The dough is smaller and the bread is finished after almost 30 minutes. A bit too hot from the bottom but I also powered the stove more than before. You should never adjust two parameters at the same time in an experiment ...

On the road this procedure will be pretty straight-forward: Arriving at the designated campsite I will be putting a freshly built dough under the bonnet to accompany the warm engine over night. In the mornings during camp breaking I will leave it on the stove and enjoy crunchy orgasms during the day and the following evening. Hellyeah!Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Jun 16, 2020, 2:32 PM
- ☁️ 22 °C
- Altitude: 1,879 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5042, 38.217094°30’15” S 38°13’2” E
Day 182
Cancelled but hey!
June 16, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Thank you Turkish Airlines for your professional assholiness. "Now I have the salad" with refunds. As fast and frequent as your flights pop up on your website as quickly they disappear again. The same applies for alternative connections. If yesterday an Ethiopian flight was at 2000 $, today it might appear for 518 $ and when you finally want to book half a day later it's back at 1600 $ ... or not listed at all. This whole air business seems to be implemented by 13 yo school children who cannot decide between spaghetti and pizza even though there is just French fries listed on the menu.
But hey, I made the first prototype of Usambaran whole wheat sour dough bread!!Read more
Michi, der These bloody idiots offer refunds just in form of a voucher. Are they serious? What the hell am I supposed to do with a voucher when I had booked a one-way flight and this company has obviously decided to stop flying this route at all?
6/16/20Reply
Michi, der I requested money refund from Turkish via their hotline. That is in theory possible but I will not get my money back before "at least 60 days after the regular flight schedule has been resumed". And nobody can tell me when the "regular flight schedule" is about to resume. This means that they can keep my money for ... a year?! Dann will ich aber Zinsen sehen! :D
6/18/20Reply
hm, looks very yummy, enjoy the bread! [Immo]
6/22/20Reply
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- Jun 12, 2020
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,814 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.50333, 38.216674°30’12” S 38°13’0” E
Day 178
From 4x2 back to 4x4
June 12, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
After Eckhard invented some innovative welding solutions to get the most stubborn piston out of the brake caliper he wonderfully refurbished the remaining parts and in total just two of the eight pistons had to be replaced. Spare parts for my Toyota Prado are pretty easy to get here as many of this model are still on the roads. Cleaned, with new sealings and brake pads everything looks very promising! Exchanging the brake fluid and bleedig turns out to be much less of a hassle than suspected! The very same evening I have a nice sunset test drive with Philipp through Mamboooo.Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- May 26, 2020
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 161
Black-tea-coloured surprise
May 26, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
The rear, single-piston brake calipers look better than the front ones. At least the rubber boots are not damaged and the pistons are retracting smoothly with slight force. After struggeling a whole day I managed to unmount the front calipers after applying Ballistol over night and with the help of a metal tube extension which I got from Indian guests from Dar. These guests also took the calipers back to Dar today in order to be refurbished at Eckhard's truck workshop (the German where I plan to leave my car once I fly out of Tanzania)! :-D

Meanwhile I discovered another problem with my oil-dripping transfer gearbox. Apparently the seal of the front drive shaft is leaking around a teaspoon of tea-coloured, clean oil per night. When I return to Dar this will also be a nice task for Eckhard :-)Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- May 24, 2020
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 159
Donald the deliverer
May 24, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Donald openes his missile silos and launches a bunch of tiny black wasps (Braconidae) to infiltrate the next victims of his own kind while Bariati prepares dinner for 25 guests and I enjoy the sun in pleasant anticipation of the dinner :-)Read more
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Michi, der Let’s bring Sauna into Africa
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- May 22, 2020
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,811 m
- Tanzania Tanga Sunga Mntindili -4.5034, 38.21644°30’12” S 38°12’59” E
Day 157
Braking bad
May 22, 2020 in Tanzania ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Höhö. Last time in Dar I bought spare front brake pads. Even managed to find genuine Toyota parts! Yesterday I decided to "quickly replace the old ones" because this usually is no big deal. After removing the front left wheel I already saw that the right pad was unevenly used which indicates that one of the four brake pistons is stuck. The uneven pad would not have lasted the next descend to Mombo probably!
Had this problem with my motorbike as well once where I managed to push the piston further out, clean it from the outside and push it back in. With the Land Cruiser it is much more fucked up. The piston only comes out when I brake with running engine and active brake booster. This already is a bad sign. Its outer rubber sleeve is punctured and the piston corroded. And after cleaning, there is no way to push it back in! We tried all possible levers but more force will only destroy either the piston or the disc. It also is unwilling to be turned.

So, hmm, now I either have to refurbish the whole brake caliper here after ordering spare seals and even new piston(s). Or I send it to Dar for refurbishment. Or I find a refurbished caliper with fresh seals somewhere. First of all I'm going to also check on the right wheel's situation ... :-D

Update: On the front right wheel it's similar: the inner lower piston is completely stuck as well and the upper will not retreat completely :-\Read more
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