Jinji Sadan

To enter to the city of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya was a bit challenging. From the beginning you can see that there is something different in this city there is a kind of order in the road even traffic lights… a lot of traffic and I felt very small with my bicycle on the road. I loved Nairobi you can get anything that you want and you can see that this city is developed one. I stayed a week in Nairobi I had good work with the embassy of Israel and together we reach the local media (news papers and TV) but more important was my meeting with the children in KILI secondary school in Nairobi.

More then 200 children were in my lecture and I really enjoyed talking with them on peace and dreams.It took them some time to understand that I came all the way from Cape Town to Nairobi with my bicycle, no bus and without a plan…I told them that if one child in the world will do 120% to make his dream come true I did my part in the world. In Nairobi I stayed at mayor (#2 in the embassy) and his wife Sigal, it was an Israeli island inside Africa for me.Israeli food, music and movies…. They gave me a feeling of home away from home. Only when I have been with them I understood how I miss my home and my family and friends.  It was hard to get of this Israeli island back to the African ocean and I had to stop the feelings and start to think about the future road. The road in north Kenya is famous for its challenging desert with out water and also with the wild animals and robberies…They call it the wild north. Before the desert and crossed with a smile the equator line again. Back to the northern side of the world it was a nice mark place for me. I climbed to the high of almost 3000 m with the sight of Mount Kenya the second highest mountain in Africa, going to sleep in the cold and I can’t imagine that at the next week I will cycle in the desert.. And then it came more then 500 km of sand and dirt that make you work physically and mentally for every km. There is a big drinking water problem in this area and I needed to carry with me always 5 liters of water, the locals drink salty water that I could not drink it. I was happy to meet camels’ herds on the road for me a camel it’s a sign of a desert and it was my first meeting with this animal in my journey.It was weird to see the shepherds are walking with AK47 guns, they explain me that it’s because of the wild robberies and the wild animals…Lions, hyenas and wild elephants you could understand why I didn’t sleep so well alone in my tent in the wild…I meet the smaburo tribe really colorful tribe that walking with spears and shields I felt in a movie. People were jumping from the rocks to ask me for water but I could not give them, it was hard to say no but I needed every drop of water. Many corps of cows on the road and I needed to push Emuna in the sand. The trucks going together and there is always one guy with a gun to protect the people from the robberies and I had a knife….There was a section in the desert of more then 100km of nothing sand, rocks and camels… no water no people. It was hard cycling the hardest that I had in Africa(yet), I was amazed to see that for more then a day I saw nothing in the horizon, they locals saying the only thing that grow in this place is sand and rocks…After a week in this desert I was happy to start a new chapter in my journey the last country that I am going to cycle in Africa, Ethiopia. From the first km I understand that this country will be like nothing that I know. Different languages and different clotures that I have to get use quickly. Ethiopia was like going back in time and the funny thing is that I came from north Kenya where camels and people with spears are walking on the road… In a way the past is still present in Ethiopia. It’s going to be interesting…. Love you all and don’t forget to wake up and dream.

Roei “jinji” sadan

Moyale

South Ethiopia

Africa

The world

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