One of the essential things you need to have when going North Eastern side of Kenya is alot of water.You never know when you might sleep under a camel
Every Wednesday is the Cattle trading day at the Garissa Market
I understand that the white cattle origins is Somalia while the Brown-whitish one’s originates from Ethiopia as seen in the two pictures below…
According to some brokers/cattle owners one bull here is worth only KSH.7,500 but by the time it reaches Nairobi or Athi-River’s Kenya Meat Commission it’s worth around Ksh.80,000 as seen in the pic below
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Highway to Garsen town and road blocks, jerrican laden lorries dot the road.
The Bura market doesn’t yield anything worth blogging but it’s a famous stop over for trucks plying the Garissa-Garsen-Malindi route
Donkeys are your friends here and you better be careful especially if you love speed. The road from Garissa to Hola is smooth and i wish all the roads were this smooth. But the shocker hit is when you arrive to Hola town..the road here has been under construction for the last 6 years as one of the locals told me.Mwisho wa lami…
Entry into Hola town…..
This road becomes a nightmare when it rains even if it’s a 5 minutes rain coz the soil here is the black cotton type and Japanese junk like Rita won’t make it through the muck….
It doesn’t more scarier than this…..
Hola’s Main street……..
a hearty meal of mbuzi fry/choma and ugali….goat meat is are plenty here…..
Hearty meal
The best hotel i saw…sort of a lodging but what the heck…its 200bob….
Best Hotel
HIGHWAY TO GARSEN
and the road never gets better ….
part of the road is in the bush…..
Enter Garsen
Guard post at the town gates…Declare you goods here…
Modest building in this town…the KCB Office…I didn’t spot any other bank here…….
sleeping quarters at the homeboys which we had booked 2days prior to arrival since its the only sleeping joint in this town…..
Sleeping quarters………
Water source and the showering joint…kindly note this are shared resources…the shower is the one u squat,cup the water in your hands,splash it on your back and if you miss don’t worry,the walls will bounce back the water on you……
Its adjacent to the constituency office…..
The only bus from Malindi via Garsen to Garissa then Nairobi….Miss it and you have to wait till the following day…
and the journey continues in part 2
