We left aat 7.30 a.m. and soon reached the police checkpoint. We were greeted by a massive Kenyan policeman with a big booming laugh just like Frank Bruno. He and his colleagues questioned us about why we wouldn't take the armed guard as this is seriously dangerous territory with a lot of tribal conflict still in existance. There are often armed bandits along the road and during the last few years the inhanitants of a small village we passed through had all bee...

Yet another long drive to the border town of Moyale and the beginning of what is commonly known as the worst road in Africa and one which we were particularly dreading. We had managed the Sudan desert without misshap and were keeping our fingers crossed for this road as we have read so many stories of vehicles suffering major damange travelling this road and needing extensive repair when they reached the other end of the 500k+ road. We did a bit of shopping in ...