Celtic Rover
I am working my way through Kenya quite gently, keeping the kms low as I am driving on my own and taking advantage of the generous hospitality of Lee’s cousin in Nairobi, I camp in the shadow of Mt Kenya and in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro while visiting some more of the rift valley lakes and the national Parks.
Clearly Safari holidays are a big thing here, not my type of self drive Safari but loads of tourists being driven around in Landcruisers with big windows and pop up tops between the parks and the luxury lodges (very similiar to the trucks we used when we went on Safari in Tanzinia as a family). After driving myself around Africa it seems a bit packaged and organised to me, but thats just the contrast I am sure the folks in the trucks are having a great time.
The main roads in Kenya are quite good, the pothole count is low but not zero and Nariobi is a proper big city now with freeways a built up town centre, malls and skyscrapers. Fortunately Lees cousin Alison and her husband live in a lovely house overlooking a tea plantation in the hills and generously allow me to camp on their lawn, bemused that I prefer to stay in my truck rather than in their luxury ensuite guest bedroom!
Off the main roads and in the parks the roads are back to rough washboard thanks to the heavy rains and some of the smaller roads are eroded quite badly into a very narrow track with some big ruts or flooded bits, nothing to worry Nelson but I have to put my game head back on to make sure I don’t tip the truck. I am rewarded with some good game sightings not such great pictures as the lions were too far away and I still need to get better at manual focus.
Although I saw Killy tonight I am hoping for a better picture tomorrow before heading into Tsavo parks for a few days ahead of starting the shipping process on Monday, just a few sleeps to go……
