Rolling Home and Wrapping Up

We designed our route from Mt Elgon to Nairobi to include a couple of interesting spots in Kenya’s eastern Rift Valley. The first was Kakamega Forest, Kenya’s last remaining pocket of Guineao-Congolian forest which once covered central Africa. We spent a cool, rainy night in a dusty old Guest House at the forest reserve HQ before heading on for Kapsabet. The night’s rain made the compacted clay roads incredibly slippery, forcing us to ride cautiously but perhaps that’s why we saw so many monkeys, birds and butterflies on the way.

The invaluable pocket of history that is Kakamega Forest.