Today we rode from Ngorongoro to Nairobi, Kenya. The ride was long and arduous because the road conditions were tar and gravel interspersed all the way to Nairobi. When it was tarred, it was badly potholed,and when it was gravel it was so dusty that you couldn’t see 20 metres ahead of you.
Although we only did roughly 500km, it took us from 7am until roughly 4pm and that included a border crossing but no other stops other than that.
Because there were no stops and we were simply making distance today, there were unfortunately no photo opportunities so today’s entry is unfortunately bland and limited to text.
We are going to be in Nairobi until Sunday the 25th because the bikes are being serviced here, having tyres changed and generally making sure that they are ready for the next leg of the trip and so I will not be updating the blog again until the night of Sunday the 25th.
We have now completed 7000km of our journey and have just passed the halfway mark. On Sunday we head up to Isiolo which is the start of the most difficult leg of this trip. The leg from Isiolo to Marsabit to Moyale on the Ethiopian border is only a total of 500km but 2 days of motorcycling hell through bandit country in northern Kenya and road conditions rumoured to be the worst of the entire cape to Cairo trip.
The highlight I suppose is that we will cross the equator on Sunday or Monday and then we are into Summer.
Marcia de Beer
July 21, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Putting paniers on colleages two stroke yamaha scooter,leaving now. Hoping to catch up with you and will meet you at Nando’s in Cairo for lunch.