The big five- Not this time
I have arrived in Kenya!
After a stopover in Khartoum (a bunch of aid workers got on the plane) we arrived at 7am in Nairobi. I got a ride to the Matatu station (overpacked minibus) and headed 146km in the direction of Nakuru. The road was in worse condition than I remembered five years back, so the trip took almost 3 hrs. But eventually I made it to the stem hotel, where I alerted Andrew to my arrival.
Yesterday we went camping for a night in a private game reserve (Andrew knows the owners). We must have walked 20 km and almost got killed by a bufallo hiding in the woods. But the Flamingos were as beautiful as ever and the weather warm and dreamy.
With Jon arriving tonight, we will be on our way to beggining our trip to Turkana. After two months of planning, this is going to be a memorable one. We have rented a range rover with a roof rack and will be loading her up with 200 liters of fuel and 50 liters of water. We will be making three stops on the way to the banks of the lake, where two guides have already set up camp and packed food with dry ice. This is no easy place to make camp. The temperatures can reach 38-40 degrees celsius and the winds are legendary. But don’t worry to much, I expect us to make it up there without a hitch.
I’ll report our success in the next newsletter.
Be in touch, whomever is reading this darn long journal entry….
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