The journey to Nakuru was easy and the road was quite good. Nakuru was one of th towns that saw a lot of fighting in the recent troubles and many displaced people from surrounding villages have been moved to the towns showgrounds for safety. The town had a colonial feel to it and would have been quite pleasant had it not been overrun with people and refugees but it was nice to see people going about their business again, trying to restore some normaility to the...

After saying goodbye to all our new friends, most of whom were also leaving that day we left a much quieter nairobi. We drove north west to the large freshwater Lake Naivasha which covers 170 sq km and where life was continuing peacefully. We stayed at Fisherman's Camp spread along the grassy tree-lade south shore of the lake and found we were almost the only peole there. The site was beautiful, had a good bar and restaurant and was well known for visiting hun...

Life at Jungle Junction was quite relaxing apart from the forays into the outside world. We had taken he camper off the truck so we could drive around without drawing attention to ourselves and left it at the campsite. The other people staying there were all European overlanders like ourselves 3 spaniards, 2 young Swiss backpackers, 5 young Austrians in a massive old firetruck, and older German couple in a Toyota 4x4, 1 24 year old German backpacker and Jo and Ya...

After 2 nights in Upperhill Camp we decided to move to Jungle Junction which is more of an overlanders camp than a backpackers place. We arrived and Chris the owner said 'oh you made it then without getting shot?' Apparantly two people had been shot dead a half hour before just around the corder. And from then on it just went worse. The elections to the Kenyans are a major business and indeed at the previous camp they had spent hour after hour sitting in fron...

We were up early with raging hangovers and were packed and ready to leave by 8.30 a.m.. We said goodby to Stu and Nat who were still in their roof tent and we set off, knowing they would catch us up on the second leg as they covered the ground much quicker than we did. The second part of the journey was actually not as bad as the first as the rocks and boulders gave way to more corrugations and potholes. We made good time and Stu & Nat caught us up just ou...