Dodoma Road

The pics above show you some of the more torrid stages of the Dodoma Road from Arusha, via Dodoma (capital of Tanzania) to Iringa ... lots of getting stuck for the trucks and lots of cleaning of bicycles every evening.

The roads now are basically tarred all the way to Cape Town ... and quite good quality so far. We have all slipped our slicks/smooth tyres back on and our average speeds and effort outputs have changed considerably. Malawi should still be fairly hilly ... or "rolling hills" - which can be quite confusing if you use that term for both Dutch riders and Canadian riders ... they seem to have different perspectives of that term. Zambia and Botswana are quite flat and in Namibia we will get a brief section of dirt roads again around Ai-Ais.