Our stay in Tanzania kind of fizzled out in the end. We had a brief wander around downtown Moshi and coffee before heading out of town and stumbled across the Commonwealth War Graveyard there that covers both wars. There are 3 seperate graveyards, one for black Africans with no gate, a British and other white commonwealth with a gate that locks, and a monument for Hindus (I think). It was very interesting indeed and totally unexpected.
After Moshi we passed thru Arusha, very busy and chaotic, and spent a night at the Maserani Snake park (S03'24.593 E36'29.0). Interesting place and full of big overland trucks, 7 of them, and the mass throng of their passengers some of whom made quite a drunken racket until the early hours.
So the next day we made a hasty exit and sped to the Kenyan border at Namanga. The crossing was easy enough except for having to stump up additional dollars for Tanz road tax that we apparently should have been sold when we entered the country! With passports and carnet stamped and vehicle duties for Kenya paid we leapt into the 3rd country on our journey, and the 3rd rate road up to Nairobi. They are in the process of rebuilding most of it so there where many bumpy off road diversions and plenty of stretches of busy crumbling tarmac.
Nairobi was chaos when we eventually arrived and it took an age to fight our way across town to Jungle Junction (S01'17.339 E36'45.618) a campsite in the gardens of a house in western Nairobi. It is run by a German, Christophe, and is well known stopping place for independent overlanders. We stopped there for a couple of nights before heading off for a weekend in the bush down at the Masai Mara. It gave us a chance to visit a local shopping centre and gawp at the fantastic food stuffs available, we will stock up before heading up to Ethiopia!
We are back from the Masai Mara now but my fingers are tired so you will have wait!
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