JUNGLE JUNCTION TO AMBOSELI N.P.
326 km. 32*C. 8hrs.
Yesterday got my bike cleaned and they did my steering bearing which is noticebaly better now to ride. Met Richard from N.Z. who is also shipping to Oman with the rest of us.
Left JJ at 8:30 and striggled to get out of the choas, took forever but eventually got out of town and in the right direction.
Was on dirt for half way and got lost on some tracks. Had my phone in my left hand showing a local my map when my bike stated to fall to the left and I grabbed the handle bar and smashed the screen of my phone. The screen is green and can't open phone , done .
Got to Community Campsite at park entrance, $16 for a grungy bungalow, campsite is just sand, not nice. Very hot day.
Thursday 23 February.
AMBOSELI TO DIANI 427km. 34*C.
Lucky to have got a glimpse of Kilimanjaro which is like 10km. away still with some snow on top. Back on dirt road where the fesh fesh got me and down I went, i was happy I rode through it all and celebrated to early . Some guys stopped and helped me heave it up and , hopefully the last time I ever ride through fesh fesh. Got back on the tar and found a car wash alongside the road where we washed down the bike and then continued on throuh Tsavo NP. to the main Nairobi to Mombasa highway which is terrible with trucks and more trucks. After a 100km I headed east on a road to Diani Beach, and has a 30km stretch of dirt where i overtook a truck and had to ride through a donga and coming out my stand hit the high point and my back end came out from under me and I roode her down on the left side, which is my side of preference, as my suit is already all ruined on that side, now even more.........
Arrived at Stilts Camp and got a nice bungalow and is just across the road from the beach. Was Karoake night which I can't believe people still do, should be banned, the racket went on till 2am and sleep was not forthcoming.
Friday 24th February Diani
Spent most the day organikong a screen for my phone, so will have to head to Samsung in Mombasa tomorrow, where I have to go anyway to meet up with the Motley crew to load the bikes. Walked the beach , the water is 37*C not pleasant to swim in and at low tide the water recedes way out so you can hardly swim in the puddles bit the sand is for sire white and a lot of foreigners here loving it.
SATURDAY 25TH FEBRUARY DIANI to MOMBASA 35km.
The road up to Mombasa is hectic, filled with Tuk Tuk's and Matato's and poverty. Then you take a five minute ferry ride across to Mombasa and then it iis absolute choas, luckily Samsung was on the main drag where I waited for three hours to have the screen fixed ( $280 ). Was quot entertaining just watching the traffic and people and it all somehow works, patience being a key factor to live amongst the chaos, I would imagine.
Was a short distance to Tulia House but in midday traffic in Mombasa was painfully slow and I was on a slow bake in the hot sun.
Got too meet most the guys and the place was full so got a room a few blocks away which was not bad. ($34)
SUNDAY 26TH FEBRUARY. LOAD BIKES.
Drove to the container yard to load the bikes. The crew there loaded two bikes and it was a shit show so we then told them not to worry and we took over the loading, thankfully. Then we all went to Old Town and had lunch and walked aroound and was nice and peaceful being a Sunday.
MONDAY 27TH FEBRUARY. MOMBASA TO DIANI.
Four of us went down to Diani, took an Uber to the ferry then a Mutato to Diani. I went back to Stilts and they went to the backpackers about 3km further south.
Gret group of bikers from, France, Netherlands,Germany Spain,Denmark,USA and New Zealand who all started in Cape Town solo, except the Spaniard rode down the West coast of Africa and up here.
TUESDAY 27TH and 28th FEBRUARY. DIANI
BEACH, EAT, BEER, FRIENDS, SLEEP.
BUSHBABY AT STILTS CAMP, COME EVERY NIGHT TO FEED.
