and sunny. The first of many magnificent baobabs was sighted along the road. We were delayed at about 10am while the debris was cleared from a one-way bridge where two large articulated trucks had collided at 3am that morning. The trucks were backed up for a considerable distance and fortunately the officials gave cars and 4x4s preference. Birds such as Bataleurs, Lilac Breasted Rollers, Glossy Starlings and Burchell's Coucal become a more common sight. We stopped at Inchope to re-fuel. We arrived at the entrance to Gorongoza National park early in the afternoon and decided utilise the time by continuing. We finally stopped at about 18H30 at Mpingwe Lodge (James White Camp) - about 30kms from Caia - which on the GPS indicated had a camp site. However this was incorrect so we lodged in the log cabins and indulged in putting away a couple of local beers and enjoying a meal in the Lodge restaurant while getting the low down on the local information of the area. We also learnt that a magnificent bridge has now been built across the Zambezi so there is no longer a ferry crossing.Distance 635kms
Our log cabin at Mpingwe Lodge
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