Overland Africa in a Landrover - Kenya & Tanzania is Too Expensive to Travel

Habari! Coast to Coast in a Landrover, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean in just, err, 9 months ish? In this episode we reach Africa's east coast to drive through Kenya and Tanzania, probably the two most expensive countries we drove through on our entire Overland Africa journey.
The first African country we drove to in our good old British landrover defender TDI was Morocco, from there we drove down the Atlantic Coast to Mauritania and then it was time to head east across the Sahara. In the last episode we had successfully crossed the Sahara and reached Ethiopia, and now it was time to finally be re-united with the ocean as we head for the Indian Ocean.
It seems that the Somali Bandits however had other ideas, and to get there we still had to join another military convoy on leaving Ethiopia to get through to Marsabit in Kenya, and after a days rest and restock in Nairobi they struck again, this time in Mombasa scuppering our plans to visit the Kenyan coastal town, so instead we headed further south for a full 2 weeks of R&R before continuing our overland journey heading into Tanzania.
Of course East Africa is famous for their Safaris and both countries, Kenya and Tanzania, have some very famous Game Parks, however it has to be said they are not designed for self drive tourists such as ourselves...
Land Rover Africa Overland
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Twenty years ago my wife and I packed up our life in the UK and set off to drive overland in our Land Rover Defender with the aim of driving all the way to the Cape Town in South Africa, a journey which will take us from coast to coast along the length and breadth of Africa.
Because this journey was twenty years ago, there were no smartphones, no google maps, and no digital cameras. The photos taken on the journey were on transparencies, designed to be projected. In previous videos I have took photographs of some of those slides for the purpose of showing in the video, however unfortunately the photos from Kenya onwards were stolen from our vehicle later on our epic journey, so no photos in this video, sorry!
Also watch:
Africa Overland Part 1: Driving from Scotland to Morocco
• Africa Overland in a L...
Overland Africa Part 2: Morocco Early Days
• Driving Overland in Mo...
Africa Overland Part 3: Christmas in the Sahara Desert Ait Benhaddou, & a military convoy
• Morocco Sahara Desert ...
Africa Overland Part 4: Mauritanian Minefields and Beach Drive
• Mauritania Nouadhibou ...
Africa Overland Part 5: Mali, Djenné and The Road of Hope
• Mali Travel Overland i...
Africa Overland Part 6: Niger - Poorest Country in the World
• Niger Overland - Niame...
Africa Overland Part 7: Chad - Risking it all in the Sahara Desert
• Chad Sahara Desert Ove...
Africa Overland Part 8: Sudan - Pyramids, History, Friendly People and More Pyramids
• Sudan - Pyramids of Me...
Africa Overland Part 9: Ethiopia - THE most surprising country
• Ethiopia - Lalibela & ...
(This Video)
Africa Overland Part 10: Kenya & Tanzania - Expensive African countries to travel in
• Overland Africa in a L...
What else would you like to know about travelling overland? Leave a comment below and I look forward to hearing from you all.
For anyone planning an overland trip, especially one through Africa, please feel free to ask questions or just get in touch either by leaving a comment below or if you prefer a private conversation you can send me a DM on instagram, facebook or twitter.

[@itischichi]

This is such an amazing channel so informative yet so freaking underrated, I'm sharing this right now.

[@hassankajogoo3226]

What you are sharing is fake, outdated and biased info

[@paulbateman63]

Absolutely love following along on this story, travel, expedition. So interesting, loved every video 👍

[@blessedlove2113]

Italy never colonised Ethiopia. They tried and were defeated. The British helped the Ethiopians defeat the Italians.

[@conloubser]

I'm trying to figure out where you are driving?

[@Ninaform]

Interesting story. Amazing to see how things have changed. Right now going to marsabit, all the way to ethiopia is a breeze. Its easy to forget how terrible the road and the security was back in the day.

[@Bloodplayer13]

This was uploaded 3 months ago what are you taking about?!

[@jnjangiru]

Very true. This is his first video am watching and I was wondering when he did his trip. For one, Lake Turkana is very accessible right now and quite beautiful. I know of a family that did a self-drive tour there last year. I was at Archer's Post and the road to Moyale is absolutely great

[@hassankajogoo3226]

That entire experience must have been ages ago. None of those things are recent. The northern frontier of Kenya isa chill breeze and safe. The coast is even safer.

[@hackerg0388]

Best Travels to you ahead 👍👍👍

[@leightonoc]

Thank you for this video. What’s the spelling a Te We Beach? I’d like to look it up. I’m going that way in a couple months.

[@BigTimDiaries]

Dude, you have said quite some negative things about Kenya and Tanzania, what insecurity are you talking about? The parks in Kenya are very affordable. Shame on you

[@hassankajogoo3226]

Very shameful misinformation

[@FunForYegon]

You seem to be talking about the negative stories about Kenya only. The road between Moyale and Nairobi is tarmaced and dope. Not sure why you're saying it is gravel.

[@cinematicblues]

You doing good pal? Been a long time since we have seen your videos

[@hassankajogoo3226]

Two countries in Africa that were never colonized are Ethiopia and Liberia. I would thing you did your research prior to traveling

[@goingmouch3753]

Simon, where are you mate? You ok? 👌🏻

[@robinfereday6562]

Simon hope your o.k. No video for a long time now🇬🇧

[@paulmukundi9017]

Negative video... especially about kenya... when were you in kenya? Because this information is so much outdated... the kenya you are talking about is 90s and early 2000s

[@FunForYegon]

I was also shocked! He's talking about bad roads and security issues in Kenya!

[@robinfereday6562]

Simon please let us know you o.k 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@bluerails335]

Which security reasons 😂 you guys were mis informed Kenya is beautiful

[@hassankajogoo3226]

Absolutely

[@nairobi311]

Karibu Kanairo 😅

[@dahir1939]

You're so negative about this places. I'm shocked.