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...

22.Uganda to Rwanda to Uganda - 24 Novemberto 6 December 2009 On Tuesday 24 November, we had a tricky border crossing into Uganda at Malaba with some minor hassles which merely made it more challenging than usual. But once in Uganda, driving through the countryside was beautiful, with rich, lush green, tropical hillsides, cultivated and sectioned off with hedges. Bananas are grown everywhere, and sold in roadside stalls as well as the usual onions, cabbages and ...

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...

20.Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania - 29 October to 17 November 2009 Peponi Beach Resort south of Tanga on the Tanzanian coast was our next campsite after leaving Dar Es Salaam on Thursday 29 October. Our UK family - Dickie, Claire, Sonya and Natasha - also arrived, and Bob and Maria, whom we had met at Mikadi Beach the night we came back from Zanzibar, were already camped there. On Saturday night Bob and Maria invited us all over for a ca...

19.Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar and Chumbe Island, Tanzania - 19 October to 29 October 2009 On Monday October 19 we drove from Mikumi to Dar Es Salaam, through the middle of Mikumi National Park which has a constant barrage of speed bumps along the way to slow the traffic down for the wildlife. We have found the use of speed bumps is quite common and possibly the only way to reduce speed, which is universal on the roads despite the surface. We stopped in Morogoro for...