Moyale - Marsabit by "car"

Hage and the car, which turned out to be a truck

Dirt road to Marsabit

Hage told me, we will travel by car. Well, the car turned out to be a truck. At least, we could travel in the cabin and not on the back. However, this was the only good thing today!  The track was in a very bad condition and it took us 10 hours and two breakdowns to reach Marsabit.  In Marsabit, things became very interesting. The idea was that we spend the night in Marsabit and go with the same truck towards Nairobi the following day. So, it was also communicated by the driver. 




 

More camels than trucks on the way in between Moyale and Marsabit, Kenya

In Marsabit, it turned out, that we can go with him, but only 3 days later, because the driver has to go somewhere to fetch a load of sheep first and deliver them in another place. And this means one day going there and one day of return...Well, Marsabit is not exactly the place at which one absolutely wants to spend three days... So, we had to find an alternative. After a long fruitless discussion, we bought bus tickets for the bus to Isiolo. Then we started our search for a hotel.  Well, as said before, this day was not the best day I ever had. The first six hotels were full... And all that at 9pm (European time) with two small girls and pregnant Hage, who was already completely wore out.  After one and a half hours of searching in the dark, we finally found a place to sleep. Though expensive, but, at least we found something.