8 January 2006 We have just logged on at an internet café and are absolutely over the moon to see the amount of money you have all helped raise for the Amani Children's Home (see our fundraising website at: www.justgiving.com/kenningtontocapetown). We set ourselves the target of £2500, knowing that this would be such a significant amount of money for the charity - and have now beaten the target and raised just over £2800 ! This is amazing and we fee...

Day 141-147 NEW YEAR IN LAMU Getting on a plane at Wilson Airport on our way to Lamu seemed an alien experience to us having spent the past five months driving to Kenya. As did staying in a hotel...with a real bed and a shower! This was to be our first hotel room since Cairo... We stayed at Petleys Inn in Lamu Town - a fascinating fishing town with a maze of narrow streets and beautiful carved doorways. The island is predominantly Muslim and in fac...

Day 137 - 140 SAMBURU and THE GREAT HOBNOB HEIST We spent a couple of days relaxing at Timau, walking off the Christmas lunch, eating turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey hot pot and Thai turkey curry until everything was gone...then we drove north to the Samburu National Park. The dry, barren area was in stark contrast to the lush mountainous foothills of Timau. The park was an interesting blend of dry bush and forested streams which meant we saw lots...

Day 134-136 CHRISTMAS AT MOUNT KENYA We left Rumurutti on Christmas Eve morning and drove to Nanuki, in search of a turkey! We arrived at a butchers shop just as it was closing and by sheer coincidence they had one turkey left which had been ordered by a customer but not collected. We were so happy but rather shocked when we saw it: a mammoth 14 llb bird, with enough meat on it to feed ten people! Quite how we were going to cook it remained a mystery ...

Day 129 - 149 NAKURU to NANUKI We left the lovely campsite in Nakuru and spent a night camping in Nakuru National Park. Jilly and Gareth had fun getting to know their 35 year old Range Rover we've named Ginger (apparently Ginger was Biggles' co-pilot in the famous books of the daring world war one pilot). Driving Ginger was like driving a tank - it really is a yellow dodgem car on wheels! Lake Nakuru is a beautiful game park - it has a large soda ...