Chris and Sylvia! You don’t travel through the South Omo valley and down the side of Lake Turkana together without becoming friends….

…especially when Sylvia appears with her regular Ethiopian frozen ouzo most evenings…
Can’t wait ’til they slowly get further South sometime next year…

Mick and & Tanya, crazy Aussie motorcyclists at http://earths-ends.com/

We met Jack 3 times – and were sad we missed him a fourth on our way back from Turkana. His Maralal Safari Club was one of the funnest places we stayed….

Ben! Landie mechanic who got our car through Ethiopia and patched her up again on the way back…

….carefully overseen by Chris of course… Jungle junction in Nairobi was a really great place…

Sebastian…another of Leah’s holiday romances. Ah youth…

The Bakers…we had an amazing (and unexpected) drive through private hunting concessions oevr 3 nights in the Niassa reserve . Also great food (we were on end-of-trip rations; they still had half of Woolworths in their freezer ….