Surviving the Kenyan roads from Mombasa to Nairobi

We got off the sleeping coach at around 6 am. Buses leave really early in Africa and we’d already missed quite a few but after stumbling to the bank we managed to catch one to Nairobi (without paying the inflated tourist price).

It was a long bus ride (we eventually got to Nairobi after 6 pm) made longer by the appalling state of the Kenyan roads. They seemed to have dug up their entire road network in one go and unlike western countries there was no temporary road surface.

Hasith (Bhav’s friend) had booked a bed at the Nairobi Youth Hostel for the following evening after they arrived so we decided to stay there too. Having not showered since Pemba and being pretty tired we just went to the Chinese restaurant around the corner for dinner.