Day 16 · Tanzania · 120 km · 5 777 km from Cape Town

Arusha to Lake Manyara

A happy meeting with fellow South African Shayne Rookhuyzen on his charity cycle from Cairo to Cape Town

KINDRED SPIRITS

We spent the morning in the town of Arusha which is a very busy place, getting hardware that we had run short of and finding accommadation near Lake Manyara. Leaving the city and heading west in fine weather, we passed a cyclist, travelling in the same direction who got very excited at the sight of our flags as we passed him and we stopped and chatted. A lone South African Cairo to Cape Town cyclist - he had been on the road for 52 days and had made very impresive distance, we thought. He was quite emotional at the meeting of fellow countrymen and adventurers. Getting to our lodge a short distance from Karatu we settled in, again the only guests and planned our sight-seeing for the next day. - Tango

Photographs from this day

Shayne, a true adventurer, rode his bike over 11000 in support of SOSA (Support Orphans in Southern Africa).