If city traffic kept you on the edge in Rome, Calcutta, Los Angeles or Bangkok, the pure adrenaline rush of traffic in Nairobi will even beat a Formula 1 grid start. Public transport has been completely replaced by private operators who use their extravagantly and incomprehensibly decorated mini-buses (Matatus) to get their wildly gyrating passengers from A to B in record time as they weave left and right, both on-road and mostly off-road, past traffic jams.
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| Crazy, incomprehensible Matatu drivers in Nairobi |
After passing some evidence of over-enthusiatic Matatu drivers, overturned on the dusty road side, we visited the Bomas of Kenya that showcases the rich diversity of different tribes with their distinct appearance, dances, music, homesteads and colourful regional dress. We would have been completely oblivious to this diversity had we not visited Kenya, seen and discussed this with the Kenyans we met. Kenyans could easily recognise a person from a Kikuyu tribe or Meru tribe. The lanky Masai with their lilting gait were however distinctive even to the uninitiated.
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| Dances at Bomas of Kenya |
The afternoon of rhythmic percussion, chants and exhuberant dances enthralled us as each tribe exhibited pride in their traditional culture.
