Maralal Part 2


The road headed to Maralal town is quite an adventure as I mentioned earlier in my Maralal Part 1 post. It takes people about 4hours to get to the town on a good day with public means from Rumuruti town. By private means using a 4×4 car it would take about 2and a half to…

Maralal Part 1


One of the ways to get to Maralal town is through the Rumuruti-Maralal road or through the Isiolo-Maralal road. The route I used was the Rumuruti-Maralal one which was quite an adventure. The tarmac ends at Rumuruti town and so the rest of the journey is on a rough road that has its good sections,…

Suguta Mar Mar


This is one of the last small towns on the Rumururi- Maralal road. Suguta is small and dusty (there is no tarmac) with the road running through its center. The surrounding land is mostly marshy, but beautiful with lush long green grass and huge acacia trees.    Since it’s a small town, the only financial…

Rumuruti


This is a small town that used to be a colonial administrative post and has seen little change since the colonial period. To get there, you can use the road from Nyahururu town. The town center still has some old colonial houses that serve as homes and shops for the area locals. The reason why…