To our surprise when we boarded the truck on Monday morning, the lockers are about the size of a bread box. Okay, may be a slight exaggeration, but really, these things are tiny. No one's pack fits. A school child's backpack may just fit. When we saw the lockers on the Acacia truck we could've probably jumped in them ourselves. Now I understand what my friends Matt and Jenny were saying when they went on this same trip and their packs didn't fit! We basically just emptied our packing cubes into the lockers and shoved the packs under the truck.
Our first day we left around 745. We drove and drove and drove...crossing into Tanzania, stopping at about 3 in Arusha at a supermarket to get snacks and lunch. We were originally meant to stop for the night in Arusha, but so we could do our activity for the next day in the morning rsther than the blazing afternoon sun, we decided to truck on for another 100kms close to Mto Wa Mbu.
We set up camp, had an amazing dinner with vegetable soup, rice, chicken and vegetables. Yay for a great cook again! After dinner we went and watched Tanzanian dancers contort themselves through hoops and had us join in dancing of course. Unfortunately Leteele forgot to warn us about the truck locking time and my malaria pills, ear plugs, toilet paper and iPad were away from me for the night!
The next morning we took a walk through the village and saw rice fields, a kindergarten (school was out as it was a holiday), sampled banana beer and wine (disgusting just in case you were wondering), saw a banana plantation and had a home cooked meal by the ladies in the village which was great!
We drove to get a view of the Great Rift Valley, stopped at a shop to browse tanzanite that none of us could afford, and finally made our way to the next camp.
Tomorrow it's off to the Serengeti!
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