Our first stop this morning was made at 08:30, 2 hours into our journey. As usual we were presented with the normal assortment of fruits and snacks to buy as we slowed to a halt, however there was one guy who had a ten inch replica Drifters truck which had been made locally, with opening side and rear doors, just like on the real life size truck. It even had a full set of sixteen seats inside and the Drifters logo on it. The truck was painted in the right shade of bottle green too, it couldn't be faulted. I was so impressed! On notifying Paul that these replica models were available it comes to light that these guys make replica trucks of all of the safari tour trucks that operate in Africa! How enterprising. I hope they manage to sell some as they really deserve to. If I were returning straight back to the United Kingdom I am sure I would have bought the Drifters truck.
We drove on to Masai Camp stopping on only a couple of occasions, mainly for toilet stops but one or two stops for Paula who woke up feeling dodgy and hadn't yet improved, and arrived at 18:00. It was a very long day in the truck, most of it spent sleeping between bumps, and we passed by Kilimanjaro, which translates from Swahili to 'shiny mountain', during the afternoon.
We covered a distance in excess of 600 kilometres today.
I had a brief chat with Mum in the evening which completed my day. [Editors note: which I would later find out cost me an arm and a leg!]
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