KENYA – CROSSING THE EQUATOR
I visited Kenya for the first time in 2007 as part of a life long dream to overland Africa from South to North. We entered through Namanga border post in the South and the whole process on both sides took us a mere 30 minutes – not bad for Africa! My first introduction to Nairobi was, to say the least, very interesting. The bumper to bumper traffic is nerve wrecking, but my Better Half was not intimidated at all by this as he is used to driving in Khartoum, where he worked, with even worse traffic. Thumbs up to him! You really have to have nerves of steel and adapt or die to cope with the aggressive African drive style, but our trustworthy Garmin GPS took us all the way to Upper Hill campsite in the middle of Nairobi without any glitches. As I had a “fly in” visa for… Read more >
