After three weeks on the truck we arrived back in Nairobi, sad to say goodbye to Joe, but also excited to welcome aboard seven new passengers. However, as we briefly mentioned in our last update we were actually going to leave our overland trip for a short while. The reason being that we didn't want to (this time anyway) splash out the $500+ each for a 3 day safari tour of the Serengeti. Whilst both of us really enjoy safaris, as some of our previous blogs make clear, we made the choice to give it a miss and save the money for another trip (we also realised that another $1,000 out of our travel pot would likely hamper our end of trip plans) so we packed up a small bag each and said goodbye to the truck for just over a week.
It wasn't just us making this slight change to the trip itinerary. We were leaving with another couple on the truck, Aussie Ben and Irish Sheila, bearded Scotsman Scott, West Country girl Keianna and the coolest guy we've met on our travels so far, New Yorker Michael. All had made the same decision as us and so we set off on a mini adventure of our own, unaware of the drama that awaited us over the next 8 days.
