I had heard a while ago about Montenegro but I was uninformed about the place so that when I got here the beauty of the place was a shock to me. As the bus descended the mountains of Bosnia the bus passengers all got their phones out to take photos of the coast. It’s the… Read More »
I definitely cannot bear the thought of a weekend in Morogoro and so I tolerate the five hour journey on a Friday and Monday. Last week I arrived at Morogoro bus station to find a bus about to leave and jumped on it. I couldn’t work out why the man took my ticket, swapped it… Read More »
I was told by a helpful taxi driver a few days earlier that to get to Kilwa I would need to go to Temeke Sudani bus terminal. So I got a Bolt taxi and 10,000 Tsh later at 7:00 I rocked up there and sat on a bus with a nice artist/musician/actor guy with crazy… Read More »
When the sun came up Zambia was displayed outside my carriage in all its glory. The first thing I noticed was that houses were often round mud houses with straw roofs. They were sometimes on their own and at other times in small groups, maybe an extended family. Glimpses of the villages and homesteads came… Read More »
So you’ve landed at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam and now you need to get to your hotel. Do you reach for your Uber or Bolt app or are you going to throw yourself into Tanzanian life and try local transport? Here’s a guide to help you decide how, why and when… Read More »
I take the bus most days and there is something I have noticed. Whenever passengers push on (they always push on, no matter how many free seats there are), they sit on a double seat but instead of sitting by the window they sit by the aisle. This means that anyone else who comes on… Read More »
I wanted to get away from Shanghai for a while and looked on the map and could see that Vietnam was very close and I figured that if I got myself to Nanning I could probably get a bus across the mountains to Vietnam. SO that is what I did. Here is what I did… Read More »
27km of steep winding road joins Yuanyang new town to the old town which clings perilously to the side of an impossibly high mountain. When I took the journey a few days ago I shared a crowded minibus with humans and animals and much the amusement of several children, as we climbed higher and higher,… Read More »
I was sitting on the number 13 on the way back from the shops and I was careful as always, to make sure nobody was stealing anything off me. The bus stopped and I lept up (lucky enough to get a seat today) and headed for the door. I felt a tugging at the back… Read More »