We wanted to do a snorkelling trip in the Mombasa waters but the Kenyan government is again on top of that - only $15pp though and we decided this one we would take. Captain Kassim took us out on his dhow with Mustafa the name sake of the boat and another Rasta-looking chap wearing a sleeveless shirt and underpants. We went out into the marine reserve which runs along the Mombasa coastlines and were wowed by the abundant marine life living amongst the coral. We...

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...

Kampala has got to be the most unorganised inefficient city we've travelled to! We were warned about being caught in rush hour traffic in Nairobi but the traffic here is far worse! The centre of town is permanently grid-locked and it seems that all routes to go through here. As with so many African countries the shameful history of its dictators are to blame. Idi Amin came to power and destroyed tourism but allowing the army to machine-gun wildlife for food. He...