Mikumi

After a long night on the ferry to Dar and a rather boring bus ride to Mikumi I found my self in a trucker stop in central Tanzania. Some guesthouses and normal shops are lined up next to the road and every 2 minutes a overloaded truck roars through. During the night the empty village fills up with loads of trucks and after they got drunk at the bar they have sex with the local prostitutes.

The reason I came to Mikumi is Mikumi National Park. A German guy in Dar Es Salaam told me that you can go to the entrance gate, pay the 20$ and then sit next to a waterhole a see many animals. He even saw a lion killing a buffalo.

First of all he gave me wrong directions and I walked on a road for about 90 minutes pushing away doubts by the local community about the information I got from this guy. Eventually I had to accept it and walk back. Then I followed the advise of them and found the entrance gate when a bus droped me of in the middle of the park. Then I had to find out that the park authorities have pumped the water out of the waterhole because animals were getting to close to the people. So no animals and only expensive game drives. I went back to Mikumi village and drank beer. After 2 nights in this shithole I left towards Iringa where I saw the biggest wildfire of my life.