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PER South Africa to Slovenia part 4 By Cronjé Bruwer A LITTLE BIT OF R ‘N R IN KENYA LINK Photo 1 As you would have read in the previous episode, our friend Jacques Nel contracted malaria in Uganda and was really struggling so we decided to make a dash while he still had a little bit of strength to handle a heavily laden GS through tough off road to Nairobi where a friend of Jacques has been living for quite a while now. We entered Kenya at Busia and met up with a fellow adventure biker from the Czech Republic at the border post who was really loving travelling through Africa. Most of the African countries have a one-stop border post where both the country’s border officials share, this make crossing the border much easier. We crossed back into the Southern hemisphere on our way to Nairobi, see photo 1 Enroute to Kisumu, considered the second most important city, after Kampala, in the greater Lake Victoria Basin with its climate classified as humid (over 1,100m a.s.l., for those who know what that means), and temperatures reaching as high as 34 degrees Celsius during the hot seasons and covers an area of approximately 417 Km² on the shores of the majestic Lake Victoria, we experienced our first major breakage on Cronje’s motorcycle, The link above the driveshaft broke! The reason was hitting an unexpected speed-bump with a heavy loaded motorcycle just a little bit too fast. The true friendliness and generosity of the African people was once again shown when a local truck driver took me on his motorcycle to an engineering shop which repaired the link within 2 hours, see photos 2 and 3. Jacques in the interim also managed to contact some industry mates back home and “B&N, (Brad and Niel), motorcycles” in Edenvale, (give Niel a call on 060 070 5517), donated a link which was flown to Nairobi with a biker friend, who happened to be travelling to that part of the world, in his hand luggage so we had a spare just in case we got stuck again. Biker’s brothers standing together! We stayed at Jacques’s friends house in Nairobi in utter luxury for a couple of days so Jacques could recover/recuperate from his bout of malaria. It was great to put our feet up a bit, wash off the trail dust, rest our weary bones and rejuvenate our spirits as well as do some much needed maintenance to our trusty and faithful steeds. Thank you so much folks, you can never fully understand how much we needed that! Spare parts were obtained from Jungle Junction, a camp site and resort based in Nairobi, owned by Chris, that also stocks a bunch of essential parts for the cross Africa adventure bikers and has a fully kitted out professional workshop in his garage, we serviced our bikes, see photo 4. Thankfully, after a few days of airconditioned comfort and luxury, Jacques was feeling much better from the malaria and decided not the fly back to South Africa but to complete the rest of the trip to Europe with Colin and Cronje. We managed to wander around a bit and experience a bit of the Kenya lifestyle. The farms on the outskirts of Nairobi is well organized, beautifully maintained and form very pretty scenery. Nanyuki is a Market town in Laikipia County of Kenya lying northwest of Mount Kenya along the A2 road and at the terminus of the branch railway from Nairobi. The name is derived from Enyaanyukie, the Maasai word for ‘resemblance’. It is situated just north of the Equator, (0° 01’ North). E W bea 84 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2021
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