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4h30am A man voice screaming on the camp: "aaaaahhhhh. Please help, please help me..."
"oh my God! Cyril, someone is getting killed... What do we do?"
Reminder: We are in Africa..! Camping near by a Masai village in the steppe, where hyenas running around at night and snakes are domesticated.
It was very loud and scary as the man was sounding scared and in pain. After that scream, nothing, was the man dead already? Tents start to unzip, people walking around try to locate were it was coming from and what it was. Then the calm came back as everybody went to sleep again. In the morning we were told that was a guy screaming in his dreams, wrong malaria tablets, the kind of that gives you bad hallucinogenic dreams.
We learnt quite a few things this morning: 1- never to take this malaria tablet. 2- how to rape up the tent. 3- Never forget your toilet paper when you go to the bathroom!
We are now on our way to a village where the tribes comes originally from Mozambique, we will see in particular the tribe called Roca, they are the ones making paintings and carved wood objects.






The village had the help of a Dutch organisation, but is now totally self efficient. They have a great system of irrigation from which all the farmers benefits for free. The only obligation is for them to clear the canals, no clean canals, no water.
Fives guides from the village are with us, they showing us the way of life of the local people and as well all the art and crafts. It's nearly the end of the visit. After a meal cooked by the local and taken in a remote part in the middle of a banana plantation ( it was as George says "fantabulous") we head to a kind garden.

Location:Lushoto,Tanzania

We started the day early today as we have an 8h drive. We are heading to Tanzania, the traffic is dense in Nairobi, people everywhere, walking along the road, sleeping in the grass... Out of Nairobi the road is very bumpy, there is some parsec houses and Masai people wearing the traditional clothing, a great introduction to Africa.
We started to learn few Swahili words, like "Jambo", and ... We already forgot them!! what a shame! Hopefully tomorrow will be better!
We are trying to get some few shots of the people here, but we need to be very careful. They hate it..., well unless you pay them, they love it! Some of them believe that when taking their picture, you are taking their soul.
We have now crossed the border and are now in Tanzania. It was not simple to cross, we handed our passports to the guy, who asked a guy who knew a guy then we had to go to see a guy to pay and finally another guy gave us back our passport with the visa. We are still in the Masai land but the landscape changed quite a bit. We have mount Kenya in front of us and the Kilimanjaro on our left.
...Oh! By the way, we know as well "tawa tawa" which means everything ok!!
It's 4h30pm. We are stopped on the middle of nowhere. The truck broke down...! Time for a pipi!! There is a Masai village few meters away, women coming back from land work, stopping meters away, to avoid being seeing by us. Finally George managed to fix the problem, African style, with a hammer and some force! The breakdown delayed our journey from one hour or more. We have to stop in another camp a few kilometres away from Arusha... We have around 30min before sunset to set the camp. We managed it and are now ready for a good dinner and hopefully a good night sleep...

Location:Kenia to Tanzania

We finally arrived in Kenya. The trip started well by an upgrade first class for the flight, champagne and menu "a la carte"... Arrived in Nairobi we took a very dodgy taxi (was not looking like a cab at all and had some old mechanic pieces in the boot). We weren't sure if we took the right decision! After 20 min of mad driving we made it to the hotel.

Ça y est! Arrivés au Kenya. Le voyage a très bien commence: transfer en premiere classe pour le vol!!!! Raisons: inconnues, mais tres appreciees!! Champagne et canapés!
L' arrivée a Nairobi fut un peu plus tumultueuse: 20 minutes de parano pour Cyril et moi, ayant decides ( je l'avoue, sans trop de jujotte!!) de prendre un taxi non reference. On s'imaginait deja le carnage! Nous avons finalement rejoint notre hotel en tout securite. Ce sera donc 2 jours de farniente, avant la brousse... A suivre...



First taste of Africa! Can't wait to see more.

Location:Nairobi, Kenya