Our sojourn at Utengule Coffee Lodge, on the slopes of the Mbeya Range in Southern Tanzania, is a pefect comma on this long trek to Cape Agulhas and beyond. For four days we take up residence in a 5-bedroom bungalow surrounded by lush gardens, with direct access to the lodge’s…

The following segment of this journey could have ended in the city of Mbeya or on the shore of Lake Nyasa down in the Great Rift Valley but after receiving a kind invite from Utengule Coffee Lodge it was an easy decision to plan our next stopover at the world-class…

Any long journey ends up being divided in sections. After reaching the southern limit of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean, our next aim is to rejoin the Great Rift Valley. On a map it is a long straightish line heading into the setting sun, a dull crossing you might wonder.…

Riding my awkwardly loaded mountain bike on the broken up yellow line, my mind is trying to decipher the messages sent by road users coming behind me. It’s a honking symphony. There are the motorcycles “boda boda”, motorised rickshaws “bajaj” and minibuses “dala dala” hooking in rhythmic sequences to attract…