Mbezi River, Kibaha, Kisarawe, Pugu, 8^th May 2005

All text by Cedric

This Sunday morning I woke up at 6, I was really nervous, couldn’t sleep anymore. The reason? Last Friday I bought a little green Japanese named KLX 300R. My first bike. To understand her a little bit more, I spend my whole Saturday at Michel’s house playing with nuts and bolts, putting some dirty oil everywhere on the floor, but finally I managed putting everything back together. I left Michel with him saying something like, “don’t worry Cedric, they are crazy, fast, you are going to fall, you have never done off-road before, the only thing you know is changing gears, but... you’ll enjoy it...”

At 7h45 alone at the total filling station I was asking myself the reason of my presence here on a Sunday morning dressed like Goldorak on a funny green Japanese

Henrik (DK)	Alex (FR)	Cedric (CH)	Sebastian (DE)

GPS recorded track inserted on callibrated map

I had absolutely no idea about where we were heading, I was just trying to think on how to stay on my bike, and come back in one piece, following the fast German, the crazy Dane, and the tall French.

This is it riding???	Maybe I am fast enough. I'm still smiling, but… for how long ? (Sebastian, Alex and Cedric)

Some air

		Cedric and Alex

		Alex ready to take off, and Cedric trying not to fall…

Alex

Old bike and a lot of experience

Alex leading, Cedric following

Alex to enter the Mbezi River

Henrik
Alex

Cedric

Swiss prudence: avoiding the unknown water... Hours later, south of Kibaha. Cedric

Sebastian & Alex
Sebastian

Easy to look nice, engine stopped

From the bush to nowhere

Henrik

Discussing which way to go?!!! Swiss biker in between German rationalist and French nihilist! (Editor)

Sebastian in search of the green Kawasakies

Cedric		Henrik

Sebastian
Henrik
Cedric
Alex

Alex choose a different path…and passed	Alex in full speed, caught with a zoom... is this the face of fear or of no-fear?

Cedric
Henrik
Henrik

Re-entering Dar es Salaam