Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Ewaso Nyiro Experience





If I thought the madness in Oldonyori (by now you should have known where the hell that is) was ‘IT’, ohhhh, how wrong I was. As usual (it has now become the practice) we are still quarreling over this and that before the journey begins (to Borana land now), and unfortunately, this makes the start of our troubles.

So first we forget to take a turn at the required point and when this mistake is realized there is no consensus on what to do. So those with chests (wenye kifua) get their way and we proceed in the wring direction. After driving for over 30km on rough road, we take a detour and proceed for another similar distance after which one local man tells us we are traveling on the wrong direction.

Tired and hungry, we have lunch (chapati nyama – everything here comes with meat even beans) and proceed with our journey. Reaching River Ewaso nyiro, we drive across the dry river bed and boom… we get stuck. Having a local around, we are able to get out of the mud but get stuck again now in the middle of the river!!!

Now the big question is what do you think we should do??? Sms me your answer and I will sample the best in search for a solution!!!

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