Kenya Transportation - bring comfortable shoes and patience!
They stop anywhere along their route and pick people up and drop people off – it looks like a clown car as you really can’t imagine how many people fit into a Matatu. This picture really doesn’t do it justice - but it’s hard to take pictures as you are speeding down the hi-way!The whole thing looked like mass chaos to me – yet you knew there was order to it in some way that I would never understand in my short time in Nairobi. The picture of masses of people walking down the streets reminded me of the NYC blackout or transit strike. But the Kenyans do this commute EVERY day…it’s part of their life, their culture. All of us in the US complaining about crowded subways, backed up tunnels, the Bay Bridge closure, West Side Highway traffic – you truly have no reason to complain. You are sitting in a car with AC and music or a phone. None of these walkers in Kenya had an ipod. 
We drove by farming and societies that revolved around agriculture. Cows that did the plowing, men walking down the road with their hoes and pitch forks – this was all for self sustenance – not for business. Pictured here are the cows just randomly crossing in front or our truck…thank God for good brakes!
The people here really lived off the land…it was their livelihood – their dinner. They used every bit of available space to grow things – every shoulder by the road had little rows of beans or potatoes growing.
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