We Cycled to One of Africa's Most Incredible Places

Last week Kenya threw everything it had at us. Relentless rain, river crossings and mud thick as peanut butter. But with little help from the locals we finally made it down the mountain. Now we are heading to Lake Bogoria. It's not going to be easy though but trust us, the destination is worth it. You must have the best place in the world. The rainy season actually seems to be earlier than anticipated. Supposed to be coming in about a month. We're now at the end of February and we were anticipating it at the end of March and now already for a week it has been raining almost every day so yeah roads are getting tougher it's fantastic for the people here because there was a severe drought of course this brings the plants and of course most important the crops back to life and that's actually what really matters. We're heading to this one campsite that was on the route It's a recommended place and we love to go there and just relax. We're heading for the main road and from there it's easy cycling towards this campsite. Yeah we can enjoy this last bit and hopefully fingers crossed it doesn't rain. How are you? All right we got this from another couple that's staying here on We are on the camping, a German couple. Ice cold. Yeah, fantastic. And just what we needed actually. And what a cool place here we are at Netbond Kudu Camp. One of the owners he showed us like a kind of a natural spa here down below. Yeah normally it's clear but now because it's raining a lot it's very muddy. So now we get a mud scrub. Yo, am I getting a mud scrub? You're getting a mud scrub. I'm just going to be staring at them all for the rest of the night. The mud but it's still pretty heavy going. All these stones that are loose. Hoping to look back a little bit, enjoy the view. But it's tough. All in all, not too bad, but we're still about a kilometer of this uphill. All right. The good thing is, is that everything almost feels easy now compared to today with the peanut butter mud sweating like crazy. But I feel like we can see the top there. Just a little push more and then we hopefully have a nice view over the lake. Oh it's very very humid. It wasn't the worst ever but it was still pretty intense so it doesn't look like much but we have a nice probably very bumpy downhill from there. Good asphalt is not very common here in East Africa so this is just fantastic. We have a little slight downhill it's It's overcast. Life is good. I'm not so desperate that I'm going to kiss the asphalt but I was thinking about it. My name is Erik Lorenz. Lorenz, nice to meet you Lorenz. Oh wow what an incredibly beautiful place you have here. It's crazy. Wow you must have the best place in uh maybe maybe in the world wow. Never saw such a spectacular approach of a rainstorm. I don't know how we are still escaping it. We're waiting for it kind of the whole day already. It's insane to see. And it's so calm. Yeah. It's strange, right? It's still calm, yeah. Yeah, it's strange, right? It's so calm and there it's just, the rain is pouring down. And also there it's raining in the distance. It feels like we're on the only dry spot in the whole area. Drinking a beer, having the most incredible Vista probably of all Kenya so far it's amazing. I think we must have the best vista from anyone in the world right now. The rainy season is closing in fast and lately we've been getting some serious downpours almost every afternoon which has us wondering are we really about to head into the savannah at the worst possible time. Thank you. Because getting stuck in the mud would be bad Maybe bad enough, and with lions on the prowl it's not exactly part of the plan. We are now heading to Nanyuki, so we are climbing up to the Laikipia plateau. Nowadays it's really more of a question of when is it going to rain. And not if it's going to rain, because it's raining every day. The most important thing is which road surface are we on. Luckily it's now paved, but if we would have had this somewhere else, then we would be stuck for sure. So yeah, it's getting more challenging, I hope. We're not out of luck with cycling the Laikipia plateau.