We left Masai Mara and were on our way to Amboseli National Park, which is about a 4 1/2 hour drive to Nairobi, we stopped there for one night at the same hotel we started from. It’s a further 4 hour drive to Amboseli and we had other plans for that day so a great idea to break up the trip.
It was a few hours drive to get there but we saw some interesting things along the way. We drove on a road that was built by Italian POWs in WWII and we also passed a Catholic Church that they had built.
Church built by Italian POWs 
You can see the sign in the bottom right corner that it was built by POWs in 1942
We also stopped at a viewpoint for the Great Rift Valley which was pretty spectacular.
Coming up to the Lookout 
Pretty spectacular view 
Beautiful 
There were little stores and washrooms here 
Want a fur?
We also drove part of this road where they have hijackers. The road is very steep and trucks have to drive quite slow so these hijackers like to jump on trucks as they drive past and steal the food. Sometimes they will sit on the trucks and throw cabbages and other fruits/vegetables off the truck to their families waiting alongside the road. I thought it was quite funny. Here they are…..Oh, and No I did not get a photo of them on any trucks but I wish I had!
Biding his time 
Waiting for food to be thrown off the trucks 
Waiting for the right opportunity 
Biding his time
A few photos along the way.
Cows! 
Colourful building 
Along the way 
Heading into Nairobi
Then we kept driving until we hit the Giraffe Sanctuary and Karen Blixen’s house, that’s the next post ! See you then….
Trums Travels 
The Rift Valley is so amazing from a geology perspective! Earth is ripping apart…
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The houses and towns are colorful and interesting. Very clever and it’s funny you have this post about them waiting for food to be thrown from the truck as I just saw a short video on Twitter/X the other day where some elephants saw a truck laden with sugar cane coming down the road and the elephants all walked over to the truck and helped themselves to a stalk of sugar cane. 🙂
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Haha I would like to have seen that! Animals are so smart 😊
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If I see it again, I’ll pass it along to you. I also was impressed with their “smarts” and if elephants never forget, I’ll bet they do it regularly! 🙂
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Such incredible variety. The road built by Italian POWs in 1942 gave me the chills, in light of my grandfather’s WWII letters. Living history. Thank you for your generous share. 🙏🏻
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I agree, it was very surreal. I could almost picture them there building the road
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🙏🏻
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