Arrival and Lamu - Blogabond

I arrived in Kenya on a Thursday. With a whirl wind weekend, plans were made to head to the coast. By Tuesday, Marcus, Kuzi and I are packed into Marcus' ex-Army landrover and headed towards the coast. It was my first experience with the "excellent" Kenyan roads. In the back of the landy, I bumped along for eight hours, through amazing moon like landscapes and small villages. At 12 am we 11 arrived at Tiata; where Marc was working. After some beers and wondering around in the dark looking at trees, we laid on the roof of the landrover and watched the meteor shower with little to no artificial light. We went to bed at 3am in the tents of the rangers for the region.

In the morning, we had tea and donuts and then wondered around the local town, 17playing with the kids and talking to the elders; well Marc, Marcus and Kuzi did... all in swahilli. Watching Marcus and Marc 14 I realized that this is their home. They were so comfortable throwing the kids around and talking with everyone. Marc says that this is good for the anti poaching efforts because the people are comfortable with him and when they hear of an elephant that has been killed usually he hears about it pretty quickly.

After lunch, we had to head out. Kuzi had dj job in Malindi that night so we had to make quick time. We headed out with Marc this time though and drove to the coast. 18 The drive was beautiful. It was my first experience with Africa and I was loving every minute of it. From the bumpy roads to the kids waving, the warm sun and the baobab trees, I was already in P8155766love. We traveled towards the coast and had our first look at sunset but did not arrive until after dark. After a quick dinner and getting settled at the hotel, the party began. Kuzi was not up until midnight so we just hung out. The party went pretty much all night and I finally went to sleep at about five in the morning. Everyone else stayed up. However, my sleep in a bed was short lived. P8155768At 6:30 am, I was woken up by Marcus telling me we were heading out and Marc asking if I had gotten a good night's sleep (note by this time: I had been riding on about 3 hours of sleep already: time change) and I grumpily got in the car. I was so mad at them I did not talk to any of them for most of the day. At, 11 am we arrived at the northern coast of Kenya and where we f would take the boat to Lamu Island. I remained angry at them until we got off the boat, dropped off our bags and got food. Then I saw the beauty that was Lamu and all was forgiven. We went swimming and then I took a nap...

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crAsh13 on August 14, 2007 from Lamu, Kenya

from the travel blog: East Africa in 2007

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