Rainy season

May has been a wet experience. Especially when driving, it's been a challenge to make it to our destination sometimes. Creativity, optimism and pure luck have been important - and most of the times we've made it. The top pictures are from the road between Mbita and Kisumu. Our car got stuck in the mud - or should I say lake, that had appeared during the last 24 hours. It's still completely unbelievable that we actually made it in the end - but not without lots of help from the locals who had made it their job for the day to escort vehicles through the waters. Our car is in the top left corner, the white one. When driving through, the water reached above the front lights. Insane.

The first of the pictures below is from the main road (!) between Nairobi and Uganda, we were on our way to Nakuru. Traffic jams on muddy roads are not recommended. The middle picture is from Ruma National Park, and thia time, we had to turn around and go back. The muddy water just got too deep for our car to handle. The last picture is from