Adventures on the Banks of Lake Victoria
I'm slowly building up a bank of stories from trip by writing a diary everyday but as you can probably imagine, spending that amount of time everyday blogging would kind of defeat the purpose of the trip! So anyway, since my last post, I'll just quickly run through some the highlights: After a long day walking around Nairobi with Ieuen and one of the guys who tried to sell me a safari on the first day - turned out to be a pretty ok guy, and good guide! That evening I got the overnight bus to a small town called Homa Bay - the most terrifying trip of my life!! I don't know if the fact that we left an hour late made the driver feel he had to compensate by going twice as fast, but I didn't sleep at all. Adding to the threat of death and general discomfort of the journey were the facts that: I had no seatbelt, the guy next to me was slightly obese and drooling on me, I only had a shirt and pair of shorts which made it very cold, I was suffering from spontaneous, chro...