The journey from Lake Baringo towards Lodwar via Kitale and Eldoret offered us a dramatic landscape shift, starting with Rift Valley beauty, moving through agricultural green hills around Eldoret & Kitale (with views of Mt. Elgon), and then transitioning into the drier, rugged, and increasingly arid terrain of Turkana County towards Lodwar, featuring a mix of paved and gravel roads, significant elevation changes, and stunning, stark scenery. It took us two days of driving with an overnight at the checkpoint in Kainuk, where the army imposed a curfew from 6 PM to 6 AM due to recent bandit attacks around the road.
