After arriving back on the mainland, and finding quite a bit of relief in finding our car in exactly the condition we left it, it was time to move on... We decided to head off to Amboselli National Park right in the South on Kenya. However, with too much distance to cover in just one day, we planned to stop off in Voi, a small town near Tsavo and entirely surrounded by Tsavo National Park. Since we were camping, and Tsavo is the place where all the people we're devoured by man-eating lions while building the railway track between Mombasa and Nairobi, and there are absolutely no game fences in Kenya, well it was quite a daunting thing! Luckily, or unluckily i suppose (depending on your point of view), we saw no wildlife whatsoever, and Voi in fact happened to be a fairly large town.
The following day we made our way to Amboselli where our hopes and dreams were again shattered by the Kenyan Wildlife disService, who wanted $85ea for us to enter the park. With few options, we decided to head for the Tanzanian border and to 'camp wild' just outside the park. This later proved to be a fantastic decision and we found a completely untouched piece of reserve just outside the park. With no fences, we found giraffe and later hyenas within 20 meters of the tent. It was great being completely out in the wild, and things got even better the next morning, when the clouds lifted and we had our breakfast and coffee with a, well, okayish sort of view of Kilimanjaro. After breakfast we packed up the tent and made our way to the nearest border - Oloitokitok. We spent the night in Arusha (Masai Camp), where we had a few drinks and played pool with a group of Australian guys on a similar sort of trip...
