Boris and his team from the H2O Extreme Adventure team will be embarking on a Kite Surfing expedition in the Chalbi Desert. This will be all through out the month of May. This will be the first time anyone has attempted to cross the desert on land boards.

The H2O team are old friends of Sandstorm Kenya and when they contacted us about partnering with them on the expedition we were more than willing to join them. Moshi, our Seat Covers Manager fashioned out seat covers for their two Toyota LandCruiser trucks and we also gave them 6 travel bags for their kit.

We will be bringing you updates from the team, but 1st here is a small brief of what the expedition is all about, you can read more about in the H2O website..

"The journey will start on Diani Beach, on the south coast of Kenya, then going to some remote beaches north of Malindi town. The trip will then head west, inland to Marsabit, the last town before the Ethiopian border. Here the crossing of the Chalbi will begin. The team will land board across the desert to the eastern shores of Lake Turkana, Africa’s largest permanent desert lake.

The real adventure will start here, as this kind of crossing has never been attempted before! The terrain of the desert is sandy in parts, rocky in others, so the land boarder will have to adapt by changing routes with out warning….all making it the more exciting. During the nights the team will set up their desert camp where ever they end up after sun set. The crossing could take anywhere from a week to two weeks.

The trip will end back on Diani Beach 6 weeks later.

Once arrived on the eastern shores of lake Turkana, we will head south along the lake in order to get to the other side.

Then the trip will go to the western side of the Lake, where the team will kite surf on the lake, as well as explore the shores by land board.

In 2004 the H2o Extreme team travelled to Lake Turkana to be the first to kite surf on the lake….baring in mind that the lake consists of arguably the largest crocodiles in the world."