Wednesday, May 25, 2016

MFUWE TO KASAMA. 1273KM

Left Mfuwe at 6:20am after a great night game drive where we did find a leopard . Drove to Chipata then N to Lundazi and then into Malawi through Mzuzu to Remphi , which was 773km and getting dark after 11 hours riding I was little tired. Got my first speeding fine just before Rumphi. Was no campsite so found a place in an old camp not in use but people live all around but found a patch of grass, pitched my tent in the twilight and then had the best dehydrated spaghetti and meatballs ever ! Got into bed at 6:30 cause there was nothing to do, I collapsed and only woke at 4am, must have been tired. Got up and had my Weet box and packed up and left at 6 am. Crossed over the mountains back into Zambia. Yesterday crossing into Malawi was the quickest and easiest border crossing in my life took 15 minutes, took longer to find the officials to come tend to me. Then I had to take a photo of one of them on my bike who was wearing a short with Marijuana leaves being the pattern. So today when I crossed the Malawian border it took mere minutes ,but could not find the Zambian Customs so kept on going figuring they did not have one, but I was wrong. Was an insane ride today doing 300 km. of knarly dirt ,clay and sandy road. Took 6 hours to do 180 km, went down in the sand and ended up in the bushes, was a fun day and after crossing with the pontoon it was tar for the last 110km , like a super highway all the way to Kasama, thanks to the Chinese. Did 500.4km and another 11 hour day , got to stop this , could not help it cause from Mfuwe I could not cross over and had to do a 800 km detour. Was able to shower tonight and had a great curried chicken , except for the hair I found on the plate which I didn't order, the waiter wasn't too perturbed , just as I expected.










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