Kenya Bike Odyssey - Riik and Rach go on Safari

Every so often Rik gets in touch - "Dude I've got an idea", I find its ususaly best to roll with it.

 

This year we went to explore the Kenyan bike Odyssey 

Riding along a narrow piece of Single track where the track had washed away

My bike flew in a fancy Evoc Bag, Rik's bike protected only by 2 sheets of cardboard and a plastic back. Guess who's brake discs got bent on the flight...Whyd oes this happen to me

Good morning Nairobi! Double breakfast at the campsite

Doing my best Influencers in the Wild impression at the campsite pool

Packed up and ready to roll!

Escaping Nairobi - appranetly if traffic is bad it's cool to drive on the pavement

Riding through tea plantations

Day 1 stopped early at a hotel with heat exhaustion - hotel though it was appropitate to put hot water bottles in our beds????

Kenya had bog too (but not very much)

One of the best things about the route is all the differnt landscapes we rode through

Ostrich!

Insert Zebra crossing pun here

Fishermans camp Lake Naivasha

My enemy - the Monkey that stole our M&M

So many birds that I had no idea what they were

Hippo at the campsite. Electic fence was hurriedly turned on

Warthogs!

Dissapointing lunch at Petrol station. Bikepacking - not all glamorus

Earth Camp - geothermal sauna

I was sceptical, but was actually amazing!

Views over Sleeping warrior

Earth Camp

Avo lime and tempura veg starter, best meal of the trip.

Saying good bye to Kaz, leaving Earth camp

Obsidian 'track'

Kenya - strong avocado game

Eating super noodles in the rain - this is not what we came on holiday for!

Wildlife shots on the move. 5 mins earlier I fell off my bike doing this

Maybe not the backup water source we thought.

Flamingos!

Taking a break in Soysambu

Weetabix and chocolate spread - breakfast of champions

Off route to Nakuru to get key supplies

Menengai Crater - spectacular

Midge bites from Eburru forest

Thermarest fixing aided by campsite pool

Dodgy looking shower electrics

The Equator!

Gods bridge view point

the down before the big hike a bike

Cheering school kids

Tenges camp, downed both immediately on arrival

Valentines day - apparently it's a big thing in Kenya

More Valentines shenanigans, I think the hotel staff were confused that we weren't a couple

Make your own energy drink

Dropping down into the rift valley

about 1000m descent

Where Rik broke a  spokes

or two

Campstie owner gave us umbreallas to shelter from the sun - must have looked miserable it was so hot

boat trip on Lake Baringo

Crocodiles!

Hippos!

African Eagle

We ride at dawn.

the final day of riding

Herding the local cows

Where I sent my leftover holiday money

Back in Nairobi, final night

Flamingos!

Sheltering from the sun

Swimming in Lake Baringo, too hot to not jump in.