Isiolo

Isiolo is where the tarmac road ends and the frontier town marks the start of Kenya's north-eastern area of desert scrub, mountains and Lake Turkana.

This is the last place you will find a bank or petrol (except for at the Samburu Lodge), before Maralal or Marsabit. This is a good place to buy food before going north and it has a market for fruit and veg. The area north is home to the Samburu, Rendille, Boran and Turkana people. The town has a large Somali population after ex-Somali soldiers were resettled here after the First World War.

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