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Sue woke up absurdly early (her words!) - probably before 5am, made coffee and made me wake up! Not happy and shattered all day. We could both have done with a lie in really. Several groups of men singing went past on the main road - probably from the local barracks.
We spent most of the day in town - a very busy regional centre. We didn't have any luck finding an inner tube - this is a concern as we've effectively only got 5 tyres due to this. We did manage to get most of our grocery shopping though (but it's expensive here!), bought airtime/mobile internet, had lunch at an Indian restaurant, got malaria and bilharzia treatments, bought a panga for cutting overgrowing tree branches, went to the hotel bookshop and bought a VERY dirty well-thumbed copy of the Bradt guide to Tanzania (Sue negotiated a good discount - does anyone know how to fumigate a smelly book?!), whilst there she also managed to come back out with a tiny ceramic jug from a local pottery and some nail polish! The National Parks Office next door told us that the road to the park gate has been graded but could be very dusty as their water bowser has broken down - he didn't mention anything about not walking in the park unguided - nut we didn'
We spent most of the day in town - a very busy regional centre. We didn't have any luck finding an inner tube - this is a concern as we've effectively only got 5 tyres due to this. We did manage to get most of our grocery shopping though (but it's expensive here!), bought airtime/mobile internet, had lunch at an Indian restaurant, got malaria and bilharzia treatments, bought a panga for cutting overgrowing tree branches, went to the hotel bookshop and bought a VERY dirty well-thumbed copy of the Bradt guide to Tanzania (Sue negotiated a good discount - does anyone know how to fumigate a smelly book?!), whilst there she also managed to come back out with a tiny ceramic jug from a local pottery and some nail polish! The National Parks Office next door told us that the road to the park gate has been graded but could be very dusty as their water bowser has broken down - he didn't mention anything about not walking in the park unguided - nut we didn'