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Kennington to Cape Town
Day 122 - 123 - Kenya bound
We left the village and the violent, shouting people behind and drove back to Konso then on towards Kenya. We said a sad goodbye to Gutrun and Peter, two lovely travelling companions and we and Darren and Ineka headed towards Kenya. Although Biggles was now behaving himself, their Nissan Patrol "Brutus" had lots of problems. Firstly their extra wide Goodrich tyres kept getting punctures - they had had 18 before we met up with them and whilst we travelled with them this number rose to 29!!! The other problem was a leaking radiator which we temporarily fixed and hoped it would get them to Nairobi. The only snag that we were all aware of was that we were about to do a stretch of road from Moyale in Ethiopia via Marsabit to Isiolo in Kenya, known as "the worst road in Africa!" Not only are the road conditions terrible but there are bandits around called the Shifta, who regularly take pop shots at travellers for money or goods. We were glad to be two cars together, but worried about the Nissan's tyres - although they had brought one spare they had a blow out which ruined it meaning if they had any more tyre problems on the road we would be stuck...not a great prospect...
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