Cerita Traveling : Friends of my Friends, welcome!

Pertama ke Nairobi, Kenya, semester pertama 2007, berangkat dari Kuala Lumpur.
Karena kedutaan Kenya untuk Indonesia dan Malaysia berkantor di Kuala Lumpur, maka visa ke Kenya bisa didapatkan di Kantor kedutaan Kenya di Kuala Lumpur.

Dan setelah kunjungan pertama ke Nairobi, ternyata Indonesia bisa mendapatkan visa on arrival di Kenya.
Pada kunjungan-kunjungan berikutnya, saya berangkat dari Jakarta, pastinya tidak sempat ke kedutaan kenya di Kula Lumpur, Percaya diri untuk mendapatkan visa on arrival.

Pas mendarat di Nairobi, dan antri di counte imigrasi:
Me : Hi How are you?
Immigration officer : where is your visa?
Me : I dont have one, I should have visa on arrival
Immigration officer : really? where are you from?
Me : I am Indonesian
Immigration officer : (berteriak kencang ke temannya) Guys!! Do you give free visa for Indonesian? is there any body can help me, is that the rules?

Semua mata di hall itu mengarah ke saya
Me : Abari brother
Immigration officer : Hah!! you know swahili language?
Me : For sure brother, I love Kenya, I visit Kenya many times, you can check it from my passports,
Immigration officer : bolak-balik passport saya dan "haah you been here before, thank you brother"
Me : How is mombasa road now? the project done or still on progress"
Immigration officer : Hah, you even know mombasa road projects?
Me : for sure bro, I told you, I love to be in Kenya. I love Carnivore restaurant also.
Immigration officer : waww, you can speak swahili, you know mombasa road, and you know Carnivore restaurant. You are my friend!!!
Dan dia memberikan stempel pass di passport saya tanpa tanya lagi

Me : could you help it for my friend also? the same from Indonesia
(dan saya memberikan passport teman saya)
Immigration officer : sesaat melihat ke teman saya dan tersenyum "Hi bro, you are friend of my friend, welcome to Nairobi"
Me : Asante Sana!
Immigration officer : HAKUNA MATATA

Friend is everything in a very welcoming Nairobi