{"id":7,"date":"2007-03-15T21:02:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T09:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2007-03-15T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T09:07:01","slug":"7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/kenya\/7","title":{"rendered":"The Kenyan odyssey begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flight from Dubai was uneventful. The skies were clear and<br \/>\nI used the in seat TV to watch the external camera showing the<br \/>\nview looking straight down. Kind of like Google Maps but for<br \/>\nreal. If you want to play along at home, we passed over:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Empty Quarter (big sand dunes),<\/li>\n<li>Oman (as above with the occasional man-made oasis),<\/li>\n<li>Yemen (rocky desert and dry river beds. No signs of life<br \/>\nexcept on the coast),<\/li>\n<li>The Gulf of Aden (water),<\/li>\n<li>Puntland, Somalia (rocky desert, dusty towns. My imagination<br \/>\nadded camel trains and mad mullahs),<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia (first greenery as the desert gave way to the<br \/>\nfertile highlands),<\/li>\n<li>and finally Kenya. The clouds had moved in by this stage but<br \/>\nMount Kenya managed to raise its top through. Unlike the last<br \/>\ntime I flew by there was no snow at the summit. Global<br \/>\nwarming apparently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite my body clock registering about 4 in the morning, I<br \/>\n&#8220;forced&#8221; down a few drinks to prepare me for dealing with Kenyan<br \/>\nImmigration. Last time I came through Jomo Kenyatta, I spent hours<br \/>\nin the hands of officers who were sure I was a dangerous drug<br \/>\nsmuggler, being poked and prodded and made to sit upon a perspex<br \/>\ntoilet while a man with rubber gloves eagerly awaited the contents<br \/>\nof my bowels.<\/p>\n<p>Not being a German porn star, I had found the whole process<br \/>\nquite distasteful. This time however, apart from waiting for about<br \/>\nan hour for my bag, everything went smoothly and I was out of the<br \/>\nairport and on the streets of Nairobi for the first time in over<br \/>\ntwo years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight from Dubai was uneventful. The skies were clear and I used the in seat TV to watch the external camera showing the view looking straight down. Kind of like Google Maps but for real. If you want to play along at home, we passed over: Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Empty Quarter (big sand dunes), Oman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenya","category-nairobi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.konyagi.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}