Day 20 - WED - 3/10/12 - Nairobi, Kenya
Arriving at Nairobi airport at 3am with fingers crossed that our last minute Skype SMS has been received, we were very pleased to see our names on a board being held
by our driver. Thankfully so we wouldn't have to do the taxi? taxi? negotiation dance again; though exchanging money in a dark car park was interesting... but we were
on our way!
After stopping to adjust the air in the very unaligned wheels we pulled up to the gate of Karen Camp at 3:45am... fortunately, arriving without a booking, we were
shown to a dorm room which we paid for in kind by purchasing breakfast the next morning when we surfaced at 11am.
Post brekkie, We checked in with our budget before the next leg officially started and organised ourselves some more. We also met some of our crew for our tour who had
already been on for 2 weeks to Uganda. We then went to Karen to the shops to use the post office and stock up for groceries in Kenya Shillings - very handy to have the
XE Currency converter app on my iphone!
Karen is named after Karen Blixen from 'Out of Africa' fame.
On return to camp we met the rest of our group and our tour leader Sarah where we then held the pre-tour welcome meeting and were shown a tent demo; our home for most
of the next 38 nights to come. Key notes from the welcome meeting I took away was the phrase bush toilet... shyness is quickly overcome with life on an overland
truck. 100% participation was the other - we will be cooking, cleaning and washing up as well as setting up and pulling down the tents ourselves and packing the truck
with our gear daily.
Dinner was cooked as a traditional Kenyan meal by our driver Joash - arrowroot, beef, carrots (much like a stew). Our destination the next day was Arusha Tanzania, on
the way to the Serengeti National Park.
