And so, the second tour begins.../ Y asi, comienza el segundo tour...

16th of May: At 6pm we had the meeting for the second half of the Intrepid tour. We are 16 in the group now, 6 of us from before (Leanne, Humberto, Karen, Chris, Megan and I) and 10 new people (3 canadians, 6 australians, 1 English). We couldn't believe it, we were SOOOOOOOO happy when we met our new tour leader, Moses. He is such a nice guy, really lovely, knowledgeable, friendly, and actually helpful! Such a change from the useless idiot we had before! We spent the whole meeting going "Oh my God" every time he said something, it's amazing how just from that initial meeting the difference was abysmal. The new people must have thought we were idiots or weirdos, cause we kept smiling and clapping at everything he said and when the meeting was over I actually told Moses "I love you", couldn't help myself. And our cook Henry walked into the room with the biggest smile ever, such a change from our last cook, I saw him smile twice in 16 days.
After the meeting we went out for a farewell dinner with all the people from the last trip, plus some of the people from the new group. It was cool, and sad saying goodbye to everyone. Back to the hotel, and stayed up with Leanne pottering around until about midnight.
17th of May: So, the second half of the Intrepid tour began. Up early and onto the truck. We drove out of Kenya, and into Tanzania. We stopped for lunch on the side of the road shortly after the border crossing.We stopped in Arusha for a while, at a shopping centre full of Wazungu (plural of Mazungu). After that we were supposed to head onto Mto Wa Mbu (literally translates as river of mosquitoes) to camp for the night, but it was getting late so we camped before that, at a Snake Park. We went to the bar for a while before dinner, full of other overland trucks, first time we see so many people at a campsite.
18th of May: After breakfast we took a walk around the snake cages in the snake park, they had some amazing ones, and we all got to hold one of the small ones. We then headed to Mto Wa Mbu. At about 10am we started a walk around the village with local guides. It was a great day, we were out walking until about 3:30pm, we had become so used to spending all day on the truck taking naps that we were exhausted and I was half falling asleep while walking. But it was a very very enjoyable day. We walked around the rice fields, banana plantations, hospital, people's houses. We saw how they make banana beer and tasted it- doesn't really taste like banana, but it does taste like beer. Luckily (or unlickily??) we tasted it before seeing the containers where it's kept, with its million flies in it. We saw the "passport showers" and "passport toilets" which they use, called that way because it looks like a passport photo when people are in them, cause you can see their heads sticking out behind the huts. I used the passport toilet, but it doesn't really work for girls cause once you squat to pee you can't see anything, I was looking forward to peeing with a view. We visited an artist community doing cool paintings and a woodcarving community. We had a traditional lunch cooked to us by the village people, which was absolutely delicious. After getting back on the truck in the afternoon we drove to Karatu, our next campsite town.

16 de Mayo. A las 6pm tuvimos la reunion para la segunda mitad del tour de Intrepid. Ahora somos 16 en el grupo, 6 de la primera mitad (Leanne, Humberto, Karen, Chris, Megan y yo) y 10 personas nuevas (3 canadienses, 6 australianos, 1 inglesa). No lo podiamos creer, estabamos TAAAAAAAAAAAAAN contentos cuando conocimos a nuestro lider nuevo, Moses. Es divino, un amor, sabe un monton, re buena onda, y hasta te ayuda en lo que necesites! Un cambio tan grande en comparacion con el tarado inutil que tuvimos antes! Nos pasamos toda la reunion diciendo "Wow, Por Dios" cada vez que Moses decia algo, es increible como solamente en la primera reunion la diferencia ya era abismal. La gente nueva debe haber pensado que eramos tarados o raros, porque nos la pasamos sonriendo y aplaudiendo cada vez que Moses decia algo, y cuando termino la reunion hasta le dije a Moses "te quiero", no me pude contener la emocion. Y nuestro cocinero Henry llego a la reunion con la sonrisa mas grande que se puedan imaginar, gran cambio despues de nuestro ultimo cocinero, lo vi sonreir 2 veces en 16 dias.
Despues de la reunion salimos a cenar de despedida con toda la gente del primer viaje, mas algunos del nuevo grupo. Estuvo muy bueno, y muy triste despedirnos de los del grupo anterior. De vuelta al hotel, y me quede despierta con Leanne boludeando hasta la medianoche.
17 de Mayo: Y asi, la segunda parte del tour Intrepid comenzo. Nos despertamos temprano y al camion. Nos fuimos de Kenya, y entramos a Tanzania. Paramos a almorzar al costado de la ruta al poco tiempo de entrar en Tanzania. Frenamos en Arusha un rato, en un shopping lleno de Wazungu (plural de Mazungu). Despues de ahi se suponia que seguiamos hasta Mto Wa Mbu (la traduccion literal es rio de mosquitos) para acampar por la noche, pero se nos estaba haciendo tarde asi que acampamos antes, en un Parque de Viboras. Fuimos al bar un rato antes de la cena, primera vez que vemos tanta gente en un campamento.
18 de Mayo: despues del desayuno fuimos a caminar a ver las jaulas de las viboras en el parque de viboras, tenian algunas impresionantes, y agarramos y tocamos a una de las chiquitas. Despues fuimos a Mto Wa Mbu. Tipo 10 am empezamos una caminata por el pueblo con guias locales. Estuvo buenisimo, estuvimos caminando hasta las 3:30pm, nos habiamos acostumbrado tanto a pasar todo el dia en el camion durmiendo siestas que estabamos agotados y yo me estaba quedando dormida caminando. Pero disfrute mucho, mucho el dia. Caminamos por las plantaciones de arroz, bananas, el hospital, las casas de la gente. Vimos como hacen cerveza de banana y la probamos- no tiene mucho gusto a banana, pero si tiene gusto a cerveza. Por suerte (o por mala suerte??) la probamos antes de ver los tachos donde la almacenan, con un millon de moscas. Vimos los "banios pasaporte" y las "duchas pasaporte" que usan, que se llaman asi porque se le ve la cabeza a la gente como si fuera una foto pasaporte cuando estan adentro, sobresaliendo por encima de las chozas. Yo use el banio pasaporte, pero en realidad no funciona para las mujeres, porque una vez que te agachas para hacer pis no se ve para afuera, tenia ganas de hacer pis con vista panoramica. Visitamos una comunidad de artistas que hacian pinturas muy buenas y una comunidad de gente que hacia trabajos en madera. Comimos un almuerzo tradicional que nos cocino la gente del pueblo, absolutamente delicioso. Cuando volvimos al camion a la tarde manejamos hasta Karatu, nuestra proxima parada de camping.