Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project

Category: Kenya through a windscreen | Date: Jun 06 2008 | By: Seamus

I’m in Nairobi at the moment, dealing with admin for the project. Sometime I hope to find a bit of time to write more about this chaotic, dirty, polluted, sprawling african capital. Suffice it to say its a tough place to move around in and do business. I spent 6 hours driving within a relatively small part of Nairobi today, trying to get errands done. The style of driving of many of the people I meet on the road here can best be summarised as “offensive with extreme prejiduce”. One has to be very assertive, and pretty much rude by western standards, to get anywhere. Last night a 30-seater bus came up from behind me and cut across the corner of my vehicle while I was waiting to enter a traffic circle. The driver clipped the front of my bush-bars and no doubt left a nasty gouge on the side of his bus. he obviously had other important busness to attend to, and carried on driving. I went on my way.

I found a tiny deposit of fresh lime-green paint on one of the bolts on my bush bars, but that was about all the evidence that I could show anyone that I had been hit by a bus.