About Us
We're two mates who spend most of our free weekends camping, hiking and overlanding across Kenya. What started as the occasional weekend escape has turned into a few years of building up matching overland rigs, chasing new routes, and figuring out — usually the hard way — what gear actually holds up out there.
This page is where we keep the trip reports, the lessons learned and the tools and tips that make the next trip a little smoother than the last: recovery gear, camp kitchen setups, route notes, and everything in between.
If it's happening on our Instagram, chances are the full story — with the bits that don't fit in a caption — lives here.
The Rigs
Same platform, same job, built out the same way. Both trucks are Toyota Prado J120s running the limited-release 3.4L V6 5VZ-FE — an engine Toyota stopped putting in these long before either of us started building. Each has a bullbar up front, a rooftop tent for camping that doesn't involve sleeping on rocks, a dual battery setup keeping the fridge/freezer and camp lights running without touching the starter battery, a UHF/VHF radio for the stretches where phone signal gives up, and higher-profile all-terrain tyres that handle most of what Kenya's tracks can throw at them.
Nyati
Samar's Prado
Swahili for buffalo. Nyati has been Samar's build since 2020 — the first of the two to hit the trail, and still the standard the other one gets measured against.
Chui
Antony's Prado
Swahili for leopard. Chui joined the fleet in 2022 and has been closing the gap ever since, running the same build with its own take on the details.
Between the two of them, Nyati and Chui have covered more than 350,000 km getting to camps, trailheads and the odd wrong turn — and there's plenty more road, and off-road, still ahead.