24.Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya - 1 January to 9 January 2010 Our plan to travel the more remote route east of Lake Turkana into Ethiopia and then through the Omo Valley was taking shape, with the four families in the convoy making preparations prior to the New Year's Day departure. We hired a mini bus (matatu) to take all ten of us - Bob and Maria; Dickie, Claire and their girls Sonja and Natasha; Liz and Peter; and ourselves - into central Nairobi to the Immig...

23.Christmas in Kenya - 6 December 2009 to 1 January 2010 A completely hassle-free and fast border crossing back into Kenya on 6 December, and from there we drove to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria- Barack Obama's father was born in a village nearby. We then drove on to Kericho further down the road, the tea growing capital of Kenya, with its beautiful landscape of tea bushes covering the expanse of undulating hills. We had thought we might camp here behin...

21.Into Kenya - 17 November to 24 November 2009 Our first stop in Kenya was Nairobi, after crossing the border from Tanzania on Tuesday 17 November. Busy, busy, with traffic chaos, we were glad we eventually found our campsite at Jungle Junction before dark. We met up with people we knew - the French family we had met at Marangu, below Mt Kilimanjaro, and also Omar and Bridget, the Egyptian and Australian we had met at Mikadi Beach, and again in Zanzibar. It abs...