Kenya: Nanyuki to Nairobi.

Friday 27th March

Nanyuki – Nairobi: We made a booking with Safari Link Airlines for the 35 minute flight from Nanyuki to Nairobi Wilson airport.

The aircraft is a Cessna Caravan, very quiet, comfortable and powerful. My good friends and neighbours, Tony& Sylvia, call it a rubber band engine, given that it is propeller driven. It departed on schedule at 1230 and we touched down just after 1pm. I'm happy to report the rubber band was strong & lasted all the way.

I normally use Air Kenya on this route but recently they’ve started to vary their routing the day before and often times a 35 minute single sector flight can turn into a 3 sector, 2 hour 30 minute flight, departing at 10am instead of 1130am.

Our taxi was waiting for us at the private  Nairobi Wilson Airfield and Stephen, the driver, took us to Jungle Junction.

This is where we stayed on the 18th of this month when we arrived in Nairobi from Cape Town. John is flying to London at 1130 tonight, on British Airways. He can relax and have dinner here before heading for Nairobi International (JKIA) at about 8pm. I’ll head off to bed immediately after he departs for the airport because I have a taxi ordered at 5am tomorrow morning. I have a 7.30am South African Airways flight to Johannesburg, a 4hour flight, and I’ll make a connection for the onward leg to Cape Town, a 2 hour flight. I hope to arrive in Cape Town by 4pm tomorrow afternoon. It’s just a bit different to our 32 day journey across sand, swamp, bush, gravel & potholed tarmac, between the same two points.