Day 9 (Sun, 16 July ) - Nakuru

Quite a special day today. Our first anniversary!

At breakfast we exchanged anniversary cards much to each other's surprise!

Sarb took a quick look at the loud church next door to see if he was spiritually missing something. Basically it was a large corrugated iron sided building with a stage built at the far end. On this stage a preacher was giving his latest number some welly. In front of him swayed (because of the volume probably) perhaps 6 or 7 people. Seemed an awful lot of noise for such a small number of people, but each to his own.

Drove to Nakuru to pick up the sleeping bag that should have been with us from the start. After an anxious wait, Joshua managed to find it in the post office. Result!

Then drove North towards Samburu. The landscape is incredibly lush with green rolling hills and valleys. Jo is feeling especially at home. Stopped on the top of a large hill that straddled the equator and had a look at the marvelous scenery we had just driven through.

As we continued to drive North we were slowly descending as Nakuru is quite high up. The environment changed appreciably as we went. Slowly it became hotter, drier and dustier and the dominating colour of the landscape was a tired brown.

Had lunch at Nanyuki (nr Mount Kenya).

Traveled onwards to Thomson Falls. Quite picturesque! Incidentally, we bought ourselves some 'new' wedding rings as we left our proper ones at home.

Continued on to Samburu through the driest and dustiest terrain on bad roads. Passed through Isiolo; a dirty, poor, desperate looking town where the inhabitants looked pretty washed out and unhappy.

Made it to Samburu at about 6.30pm. Both felt very tired. Saw some elephants as we drove through to our camp.

Campsite is basic but we really couldn't care. Had dinner and looked at the night sky which was awesome.