Visa Variations

It seems that every country has it’s own way of admitting or denying entry. In recent weeks  these have been revised and changed in such a way as to make it harder to get across the border. Whether this in response to  a perceived terrorist threat or ‘tit for tat’ responses to the way countries…

Filling in the Blanks

We have definite fixed points on our journey. The flight to Dar The crossing of Lake Malawi The train back from Kapiri Mposhi to Dar The flight for my son to Nairobi The other points are flexible and today we have spent some time filling in the gaps. We are definitely visiting Livingstone in Zambia…

Flights Booked

How to get across Africa from Mwanza to Livingstone and back in just under a month is going to be a challenge and one of our first challenges has been how to get to Dar Es Salaam in time to catch a train to Zambia. We were considering a train from Mwanza to Dar  and…

Welcome

Welcome to this new blog, which will chart our travels in the next few weeks. It is a companion to our main blog Tanzalongs but is specific to our journey from Mwanza on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania to Livingstone in Zambia, home to Victoria Falls and back again, hence the name Victoria…