Argh. Traffic and travellers cheques blurred from getting wet conspired to prevent us from picking up our passports from the Sudanese Embassy in the one hour collection window, so another night in Nairobi it was. When the traffic gets heavy Nairobi relies on its traffic police rather than the systems already in place which as far as I could tell just made things worse. On the major four way roundabouts they stopped traffic in all directions except one, like traffic lights, so you literally wait ten or more minutes before your go. It created a gridlock. I thought the whole point of a roundabout was to let traffic merge and flow. Not in Nairobi.
We finally left at about lunchtime today (picked up the passports at the application, not collection time, dont tell the guard) passed the equator again (for the last time in a while hopefully) and stayed at a friendly wee campsite at the foot of Mount Kenya, about forty minutes before Isiolo. Black clouds were covering the mountain top (like all the other mountains on this trip) and we were lucky to miss a deluge of rain - we just encountered the wet roads and remnants of traffic accidents...
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