Nanga

It's hot! Not to rub it in, my fellow Canadians, but it's hot (33 degrees celsius today) ! Finding shade has been my favourite distraction when walking around town. Well, the shops and people are interesting too... But shade! The difference in temperature between sun and shade is absolutely ridiculous. I'm wonderfully comfortable in shade, I'm sweating buckets not even moving in the sun. The slimmest of trees are still welcomed along my journey.

That being said, we walked all morning until we finally made it to the waterfront around 145pm. Wandered around town (saw this massive gathering of people - outside church), found a cheaper place to stay for tonight in a more interesting part of town (last night had incredibly loud music playing until about 4am), and booked our tea plantation tour! Jack's been really hoping to visit a tea plantation, and we've attempted but it's never worked out. So this time, we took no chances and booked a fancy tour. Kenya is funny, I really haven't bargained much, yet prices have dropped. The tour was 8000 per person. I was shocked and it showed. He then said he could bring it down to 7000 total. Lol! That's less then half. What the heck? Our hesitation came from us having contacted Harman via email. Harman is a man who lives in Kericho and offers informal tours for 200Ksh. Problem is, Harman is the guide this tour company uses, and when they heard we had emailed him, they contacted him to let him know we were in his office. So that option disappeared.

Tea tour booked. Wandering around town satisfied. We walked the hour to the water front and I rewarded myself with, you guessed it, coca cola. We spent a couple blissful hours sitting along the water front, breeze and shade a plenty, being served my coke and beer and fries and all my hearts desire! Simple end to a simple day.

Side note - (apparently I'm starting to like these side notes...) breakfast here is a little tricky. Africans in general have not been the most morning friendly. To be honest, I don't know how many of them even have breakfast. I wake up starved in the morning. I need a good breakfast. What we've been able to find in Kenya are local restaurants selling rice and beans and sometimes these wonderful little baked / fried breads. So most mornings, we eat beans and rice. To top it all off, African tea (made with boiled milk and spices instead of water). I like classic tea better, but when in Rome...Read more