The next stop was Lamu. We had discussed the many options of how to get to this ancient Arabic island and the vote in the end was that we should catch the bus from Malindi a little up the coast since there is little to see between Malindi and Lamu and our car would only be a liability to park at the jetty. We raced to make the bus, which was also a much cheaper option, bought our ticket from a funny little shop (KES700) and had a man holding the skull of a Marl...

After the hike we left Kakamega at around 12 and carried on down towards Lake Victoria past Kisumu to a hotel in the tea plantations at Kericho. In Kisumu we found an Impala Sanctuary which was very interesting since the only animal we have seen in abundance in every reserve we have been Impala! We found the whole thing very amusing! Of all the things Kenya could possibly put money into they have am impala sanctuary! This is the power of do-good donors to bring...

We finally managed to leave Kampala on the 12th of June. Having decided it was too risky to go to Rwanda we were disappointed but confident it was the right thing. The advantage of this is we could decide to rather take a slower drive to Mombasa where we needed to fetch Sarah from the airport on Monday afternoon. Our first day took us out of Uganda and back into Kenya. After the mandatory tyre repair we fetched a few things at the supermarket and headed on the...

The road to Nairobi was long but we managed to make it in a day. We reached the ascent up the side of the Great Rift Valley in the dark and had to drive carefully as the trucks and busses overtake whether you are there or not and just push you off the road, in this case down the side of the escarpment! It was another one of those scary last few kms into a city in the dark we shouldn't be doing! But we had decided to drive the long road as there wasn't anywhere ...