Ups` - Paradise

Nairobi - Mombasa - Ukunda, 700 km, 12 hours driving, ferry no. 4 on our trip...

... here we are...

...with Silvi and Peter...

...at their Villa "Wasili"...

...a perfect place with loveley people, 300 m from the...

...beach...

...life...

Also in pardise you have to repair some things...

..."Fundi" working a new "makuti"- roof at Peters` Villa...

...finishing after 6 days...

!...No pictures from the new-roof-party...!
...but it was great!!!

...ups` next morning...

...after roofparty...

...life is easy in paradise...

Yes,

after suffering in mud and rain for a long time,

after fixing the bikes,

after washing the clothes,

after a very exausting physical and psychical time for us,

this is the place to refill our tanks...

For those, who are interested at the situation of our bikes:

they are working perfectly!

We want to say THANK YOU to Peter - there are people in the world you just look in the eyes and you know you will understand each other easily - and it is an honour to find them!!!

Jambo Kenya!

Good bye Addis Abeba

from Addis south...

we are leaving Addis south-west
in order to cross the remote Omo-Nationalpark to enter Kenya on the Turkana-west-route,
 a quite rural area without any services...

...black market petrol-station...

...in the middle of the bushes and rainforest in the mountains we found crazy birds,
baboons, and a lot of half-naked tribes with all kind of weapons in the little villages...

...morning just north of Omo-Nationalpark...

...but we get stucked totally, the tracks were full of water
and the terrain too difficult!

...two hours later...


 ...so we have to turn back 100 km before reaching the Kenyan border and make
again a lot of kilometers...

...very happy...

...so we have to drive 500 km east and 500 km south through the rift valley on
bad "african secondary roads"...

...crossing the rift-valley...

...and a python...

...to reach the Moyale-border to Kenya and find one of the hardest bars of our live...

..." bordercrossing" ...

...and the hardest pist in our life - Moyale, also called A2 - 500 km Moyale ...
...in rain...
... nothing can be more worse...

...fu.., fu.., fu.....
there were potholes to hide cars in...

...after the first crash, if the mud is not deep "enough" it´s getting slippery like on ice...

...moyale, Jambo Kenya...
...and we had to pay 20 $ roadtax each...

...in the end of the day the rain stopped and we found a save place
near to a police-station in the middle of nowhere

no, not on the northpole...

Second part of the 500 km Moyale"road":
 at least the last 50 km of this hell are enjoyable !

 

...very southern part of the 500 km moyale,
 sun, sand, fun - no more rain and mud -  no more hard work :)



Now we are sitting in Kenya - Nairobi, Jungle Junction - overlanders meetinpoint,
we renovated the bikes for 2 days, washed the clothes, try to stay dry...
...here is the "small" rainseason...
and looking forward to rest at the Kenyan beachside a few days...
before crossing Tansania
...to rest in Malawi for a while :)