So I think the last time I was able to update was when we were back in Nairobi..(should have checked before starting to write here - oops!)... anyway... after really enjoying Nairobi we met up with the Overland Truck last Saturday, 9 July in Karen, just outside Nairobi. There are us and 22 other people... all really lovely, from all over the place - NZealand, UK, Australia, Canada and we are waving the Irish Flag!
Just by the way, I have never had so many conversations about toilets in my life... once the truck left Nairobi we seem obsessed... we are mostly met with holes in the ground or toilets which look like they haven't ever been cleaned, with dead insects etc.. yuck! so we all get very excited when we come across a nice clean, tiled bathroom... and it is a bonus if we can also have a shower... and occassionally we find a hot one too!
Left Nairobi and drove over the East Rift Valley to our first campsite, beside Nakuru national park. Everyone was allocated a tent and a cook group (we take it in turns to cook dinner & breakfast) and off we went... Spent the next day in Nakuru National Park where there was fabulous birds, rhinos (black and white), giraffes and of course the Lion - amazing...
Yesterday we drove through Kenya, across the Ugandan border.. the Irish didn't have to pay for a visa - (however for Tanzania we pay twice what everyone else pays!)....and arrived in Kampala at 6ish last night. The landscape has changed dramatically from the dry, barren land of Kenya to a lush, green, forestry Uganda...
We are having a brilliant time, the people on the truck are great, the Africans we are meeting are really friendly and welcoming, the food interesting and the sun shining... (most of the time...occassional tropical type downpours!)...
Having Goat Stew for dinner tonight... we'll let you know how we get on... and then up at 4am, take down the tent and head through Uganda to Kibale where I am on dinner duty - help!!!
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