We arrived at the border with expired transit visas (3 days validity). According to all officers at the Kobero border, we were initially supposed to prolong them in Bujumbura, where the immigration office was supposed to be open on weekends. We specially asked for that information on our...
The Kobero One Stop Border Post (OSBP) is a border crossing between Burundi and Tanzania. It’s located in the Muyinga region of Burundi near Kabanga in Tanzania. We arrived there in the afternoon, and all procedures took us around 3 hours, mainly due to traffic at the border. We...
We arrived in the afternoon at this one-stop border. We drove straight to the main building and went to the Ministry of Health’s window. They issued us a health certificate, which nobody ever requested (they did not check any vaccination certificate or temperature). For the truck...
It was another smooth and efficient border crossing. We arrived at the first gate, where you must wash your hands and register in some health system. Then we parked next to the building with a scanner; they asked us if we had some baggage; we told them that we did not have it, and then we...
After the overnight stay in Iganga, we drove to the famous JInja town in southeastern Uganda, where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria, situated at an elevation of 1,140 meters above sea level. The city was founded in 1901 as a British administrative center and became one of...
Mombasa is the city and chief port of Kenya. It is situated on a coralline island in a bay of the Indian Ocean. Mombasa, a melting pot of languages and cultures from all sides of the Indian Ocean, waits like a decadent dessert for travelers who make it to Kenya’s coastline. Having...
After a planned break and parking in Aqaba, we arrived in Amman, bought the Orange sim card (15 GB / 15 JOD / 28 days) at the airport, took a taxi to the city (30 JOD), and jumped on the bus back to Aqaba (Jett ๐๏ธ 10 JOD). The next day, we did some small reparations (1 worker / 15 JOD per...
We were undecided about which route we had to choose for our drive from Qatar to Jordan. As usual, Google offered us the route via Riyadh and Hail, but we experienced that highway several times and did not want to drive it again (very bad tarma and high traffic). Also, we did not believe...
Our first stop was at Sealine Beach, one of Qatar’s most popular public beaches, where the towering dunes of southern Qatar begin. Sealine Beach sits at the end of the east road, around an hour’s drive south of Doha, past Qatar’s petroleum refineries and natural gas...
We moved towards the KSA border after dinner with Luna and other travelers in Abu Dhabi. Our last stop to relax and work before crossing it was Al Sila Beach, nestled in the rolling dunes of the Arabian Desert some 350 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi in Al Dhafra. It’s an excellent...