On Monrovia Street in Nairobi
Nairobi and the Road to Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa - 1st November 2010
It's the first couple of days of Nosher and Isobel's delayed honeymoon in Kenya. After the almost-nine-hour flight to Nairobi, we hang out for a bit and explore the immediate vicinity of the "Kenya Comfort Hotel". The next day, it's straight on to the highway out of town to head towards the Maasai Mara, via Limuru Road and Red Hill Road, before turning off the B3 at Mai Mahui and heading along the Nyambururu-Kamirithu Highway to the heaving town of Narok.
next album: Maasai Mara Safari and a Maasai Village, Ololaimutia, Kenya - 5th November 2010
previous album: The Norwich Beer Festival, St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, Norfolk - 27th October 2010
The City Market, Off Loita Road, Nairobi
Nairobi market life
A downtown market
People mill around a Nairobi market
A back alley behind the market
Will and Tony drive us around Nairobi
Advertising hoardings
Purple blossom is everywhere
More purple blossom
The view from the Kenya Comfort Hotel window
Buildings in various stages of disarray
Reflections in a hotel window
Isobel looks out over the city
Old and new buildings
The back of a rooftop sign
More random buildings
More haphazzard scaffolding
Isobel on the hotel roof
The rooftop sun deck
Piles of rubble down below
Isobel in our hotel room
Street life
Dinner with Tusker beer
The 'Carnivore' restaurant outside Nairobi
Pots of condiments
The staff get word that it's Isobel's birthday
We get a rendition of 'Jambo Bwana' from the staff
The Carnivor's barbeque pit
The front of Carnivore restaurant
The sign for our hotel
Pushing sack barrows on the street
The street outside the Kenya Comfort Hotel
Titters Pub and Butchery - interesting combo
A public toilet, or Choo
Pushing a sack barrow around
Street scene
Strange little tricycles
A local market
The streets of Nairobi
Gravestones, or 'the answer to problem stains'
Some of the roads are hard going
Some dude picks a newspaper up
A woman hauls along a load
Amazing wooden carvings
Woodworkers do their thing
Roadside stalls on Limuru Road
An interesting sort of car wash
The Rilele Africa art studio in Limuru Road
An armchair on the street
A donkey and cart on Limuru Road
The Wa-Njeri General Shop, Ruaka
Wanjoro Animal Feeds
The Kabuku Full Gospel Church, Red Hill Road
A view over the Rift Valley
A zebra-striped hut looks out over the Rift Valley
The White Rhino Curio shop on the top of a cliff
Isobel roams around the van
Will and Isobel talk about stuff
A small café
A woman by the café door
Donkeys haul a cart with some barrels on
Some sort of satellite ground station
Inside the safari van
A Maasai herds cows and goats
A watering hole
Random old petrol pumps in the middle of nowhere
Donkey herding on the plains
Maasai cattle
Cow herding
We follow a bus for a few miles
Wood for charcoal is sold by the roadside
In the town of Narok, another ancient petrol pump
An old dude walks around
Some dudes make furniture by the roadside
A wheelbarrow full of bananas
Adverts for Biddy's Margarine
Dudes on a motorbike
Naibor Drycleaners
On the streets
A load of chairs outside
Everything you'd want in a hotel
The heaving township of Narok
A load of motorbikes
Down by the mosque and the Suzy Building
Striding around Narok
Outisde Narok, there's a welder and puncture repair specialist
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On Monrovia Street in Nairobi
On Monrovia Street in Nairobi
The City Market, Off Loita Road, Nairobi
Nairobi market life
A downtown market
People mill around a Nairobi market
A back alley behind the market
Will and Tony drive us around Nairobi
Advertising hoardings
Purple blossom is everywhere
More purple blossom
The view from the Kenya Comfort Hotel window
Buildings in various stages of disarray
Reflections in a hotel window
Isobel looks out over the city
Old and new buildings
The back of a rooftop sign
More random buildings
More haphazzard scaffolding
Isobel on the hotel roof
The rooftop sun deck
Piles of rubble down below
Isobel in our hotel room
Street life
Dinner with Tusker beer
The 'Carnivore' restaurant outside Nairobi
Pots of condiments
The staff get word that it's Isobel's birthday
We get a rendition of 'Jambo Bwana' from the staff
The Carnivor's barbeque pit
The front of Carnivore restaurant
The sign for our hotel
Pushing sack barrows on the street
The street outside the Kenya Comfort Hotel
Titters Pub and Butchery - interesting combo
A public toilet, or Choo
Pushing a sack barrow around
Street scene
Strange little tricycles
A local market
The streets of Nairobi
Gravestones, or 'the answer to problem stains'
Some of the roads are hard going
Some dude picks a newspaper up
A woman hauls along a load
Amazing wooden carvings
Woodworkers do their thing
Roadside stalls on Limuru Road
An interesting sort of car wash
The Rilele Africa art studio in Limuru Road
An armchair on the street
A donkey and cart on Limuru Road
The Wa-Njeri General Shop, Ruaka
Wanjoro Animal Feeds
The Kabuku Full Gospel Church, Red Hill Road
A view over the Rift Valley
A zebra-striped hut looks out over the Rift Valley
The White Rhino Curio shop on the top of a cliff
Isobel roams around the van
Will and Isobel talk about stuff
A small café
A woman by the café door
Donkeys haul a cart with some barrels on
Some sort of satellite ground station
Inside the safari van
A Maasai herds cows and goats
A watering hole
Random old petrol pumps in the middle of nowhere
Donkey herding on the plains
Maasai cattle
Cow herding
We follow a bus for a few miles
Wood for charcoal is sold by the roadside
In the town of Narok, another ancient petrol pump
An old dude walks around
Some dudes make furniture by the roadside
A wheelbarrow full of bananas
Adverts for Biddy's Margarine
Dudes on a motorbike
Naibor Drycleaners
On the streets
A load of chairs outside
Everything you'd want in a hotel
The heaving township of Narok
A load of motorbikes
Down by the mosque and the Suzy Building
Striding around Narok
Outisde Narok, there's a welder and puncture repair specialist