Trip to Kenya

Sorry we have had problems with our internet, so this is rather a late post.

Almost two weeks ago now we set off on our trip to Kenya to meet up with my sister and her husband. We drove to Dar first for Daniel to do some work and then set off for the Kenyan coast. It was too far to travel in one day so we stayed overnight in Tanga close to the border. Tanga is around 7 hours non stop driving from Dodoma. We then drove on a terrible road to the border, road is rather overstating it, it was more like a dry river bed. It only took us 1.5 hours to get through the border which wasn't too bad and then it was on to Mombassa. Caleb said he saw a kangaroo just over the border. We didn't bother to disuade him otherwise, he was pretty convinced. What we didn't know was that central Mombassa is an island and much to the childrens delight we had to take a ferry to get across to the centre. We then found ourselves suddenly in the middle of a big, very busy city, stuck in a traffice jam, quite a shock when you are used to Dodoma. (See photo of central Mombassa)
After making our way through the traffic it was another 2 hours up the coast to Watamu. We had a fantastic week there relaxing, playing table tennis, darts, water polo, canoing. We also saw a variety of wildlife including huge crabs and turtles on the beach, crocodiles, pythons and a camel. The thing the boys enjoyed the most were the rabbits and the guinea pigs, they were not so bothered about the exotic animals. One day I played tennis with my sister surrounded by baboons who came to watch. It was one of our best holdiays here ever, depsite the very long drive, almost 30 hours of driving time, not including stops and being stopped 7 times by the police!