Day 25 (Tue, 1 Aug) - Tanzania and Mombasa

During our short stay in Mesarani a load of the overland trucks had turned up and their occupants had set up loads of small tents all around our tent.

As we had breakfast this fine morning we realised that we must look like right posh tourists. Whilst everyone else was scrambling round a huge fire, Jo and I sat at a table complete with cutlery, crockery and a fine tablecloth tucking into a fine breakfast!!

We left Roger to pack the camp whilst we headed off to the Tanzanian border crossing town of Taveta.

It took about 1.5 hours to Taveta on fast roads. We stopped off for some piccies of Mount Kilimanjaro as it was the first time we saw it whilst in Tanzania.

At Taveta we sailed through the immigration checks and waited for Joshua. Whilst we waited we saw men pushing bicycles laden with salt through the border crossing. Looked like hot and very hard work.

Joshua turned up and we loaded up our bags and said our fond farewells to Rueben. We quickly realised we were in Kenya as the first pothole jolted us both in our seats.

We stopped off at Voi for a break at 1pm. Joshua looked really flaked out as he had left Nairobi that morning at 4.30am to pick us up.

Continued to Mombasa through light rains and possibly the worse road we've been on. To be fair they were in the middle of rebuilding it. Sarb was getting really annoyed about the state of the roads; he just could not understand how they were left to get into the state they were in.

Jo was dreading getting to the hotel as she had visions of the hotel in Nanyuki.

However when we finally got to the hotel (Reef Hotel) we were pleasantly surprised. It has 3 swimming pools, is located on Nyali beach, has all manner of bars and restaurants and half its inhabitants are friendly cats.

Jo and I checked in to our room, had dinner and a very good sleep.