Day Three - The Tembo Club, Arusha to The Roika Campsite, Tarangire National Park

Up early again, even earlier than asked due to the tent having no soundproofing!  They were taking no chances today and kept telling us the route, how long it should take and what we would do if it got dark before we reached our destination (they wanted no repeat of yesterday!)

After 82km yesterday we had 98km today but most was on Tarmac and although there were hills they went down as well as up so should have been an easier day! Started off really well and we raced along eating up the miles on the nice roads but sadly the Tanzanians had decided to resurface an awful lot of their highways and their idea of a diversion was onto an absolutely horrendous mix of gravel, sand, broken Tarmac and potholes. It also added on about 5 more kilometres so we ended up doing 104 today!

The scenery again was fantastic, bustling towns, pretty farms and huge expanses of nothing but scrub and dust - it is the dry season of course!  I looked hard for any wild animal but still only cows and goats!  Tonight we stayed at the Roika campsite in Tangire National Park and the route in was both bumpy and sandy but fun.  Lots of elephant dung in evidence but sadly no sighting of an elephant itself!  The tents were up so we grabbed ours and then found there was a pool so we had a quick dip to cool off! The showers were really quite posh tonight - hot water and shower head so I actually managed to clean my hair tonight - bliss!

Sitting having a G&T before supper and then to bed and hope that no animals come skulking around the tents later!  We were entertained at dinner by a few of the Maasai tribe who were there to protect us from animals in the night, showing us their various tribal dances and getting some of the younger people to join in.  It was a good day!

104km