Day 20 Mtwara - Kilwa

December 29, 2015

New day new country! We woke up to pouring rain. It was raining, raining and raining non stop. Eventually the rain stopped for a few minutes and we quickly used the time to put together tent. We were in Mtwara town - the most southern east town in Tanzania, right at the beach. We went for a quick walk to the beach, because we didn't really see much where we came to last night as we were driving in the dark. There were still dark skies over the sea:

The difference from Mozambique was very noticable, the roads were much better and the beach very clean, not a piece of litter!

 This was our campsite for the night, we camped in restaurant called "Drive In Garden and Cliff Bar":

This is how huge the snails are in Tanzania! :)

When we left the campsite the weather seemed to improve and we could see the sea turning nice and turquoise:

We drove around the town and went to make car insurance papers in the city centre, that costed us 30 USD. We bought SIM card for internet here as well. The city looked great after dilapidated Mozambican towns we have been seeing for the last few weeks:

 Lots of water after the rainy night:

Many new apartments have been built here, this area is getting lots of investments recently because they found natural gas offshore:

Big and fancy hotels next to the beach:

 And just as in Mozambique loads of charcoal logistics:)

After we have been done all our things in Mtwara we headed North towards Dar Es Salaam. We had to get there to find out about our visas for Mozambique. We couldn't get double entry visas for Mozambique, so we had to apply for another one in Tanzania. The main road doesn't go very close to the beach, and if it does, it leads to the villages and back. The road was good tar road:

We passed the village called Lindi:

Few main streets in the village, good road again! Tar!:

We noticed on the sides of the road there are deep street gutters for rain water drainage, what an luxury (after Mozambique again:)!

 Lindi town has a beach:

 Some street food cooking:

 New houses have been built again:

 Not too far now!

 And again we were surprised by showers:

 Which finished in few minutes and sun was shining again:

We arrived to town Kilwa, went few kilometres out of town to find campsite, there were few lodges that allowed camping:

When we were happy with the campsite we went to town to look around and get some vegetables on the market. Locals don't speak much english, so we were starting to learn our first words in swahili. There is bank and petrol station in Kilwa:

Back at the campsite we had a chalet for ourselves for shower and toilet, and hot water! So we did some washing, dried the tent:

 The view from our campsite:

Nice place for our kitchen:

 Later we went to the bar in the lodge and tried local beers: Kilimanjaro and Serengeti:

We were happy in our new country, the people are very polite and extremely welcoming! We were looking forward to our adventures in Tanzania!

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