The road from Tana

Great to be on the move, leaving the city. About 20 minutes of city traffic to get to the open road, past the old queen's palace. The town is hilly, even more than Yaounde or Addis Ababa, and the resulting neighborhood pockets are visually quite varied.

Out of town, the land is often terraced, usually growing rice with a few cows in the fields. The brick buildings of the city give way to more wood, and eventually to mud huts on the smaller roads.