Sunday 20 July 2008

The pit stop is over and the journey continues

Yes we are back on the road again after a few nights in Nairobi.
A very big thank you to our hosts for the last 5 days, Stewart and Linda Henderson. Despite our love for the open road it was great to be based in bricks and mortar for a short while, especially in 7-star luxury! We were extremely well looked after and spoilt silly on meat, back to our veggie diet now! Well except for the meat we bought at the supermarket this morning after being treated to a slap up farewell breakfast!
Our route, which is still under discussion, now weaves its way up to Ethiopia over the next few days. Today we made the short hop to Lake Naivasha and Carnelly's Camp (S0'49.579 E36'20.270). We were stopped at the same police road block as when heading for the Mara but this time the officer seemed to think we needed to pay a fine for not slowing down enough on approaching the road block. Seeing as we are one of the slowest vehicles on the road as we don't speed and knew the road block was there I just laughed at him, well in my mind at least. Seeing that I was not a complete idiot he entered into the 'you are from South Africa?' dialog and then the 'do you have any rands for me?' routine. We scoffed and gave the 'no we don't sorry, diesel is very expensive now and we are very poor!' defense which seemed to work and he wished us a safe journey. I guess we have been lucky so far and this was the first attempt at a bribe we have had to deal with.
Anyway, Lake Naivasha is very nice even if the weather is not. Tomorrow we are planning to visit Hell's Gate NP and hire bikes and cycle thru it, oh and yes there is wildlife there but no predators, or so we have been reliablly informed!

2 comments:

David said...

great pics. enjoy the cycling. good luck as you head further north.

Dad

Anonymous said...

Please bring me back one lion cub, and the baby elephant with the pink blanket. Nice pics.

Love Carolyn