After my emotional revisit to Naivasha, I went to Kisumu for a few days. I backpacked to the Equator in Maseno, Kenya, to complete a series (haul) of visits to locations at 0 degrees latitude.
The Equator is an imaginary line over 40,000 km in length that passes through 11 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia and Indonesia, and passes through the territorial waters of the Maldives and Kiribati.
Maseno, Kenya, 25km out of Kisumu, was my third time visiting the Equator, the point of 0 degrees latitude, which is the dividing line between the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
This marked my second Kenyan Equator visit. There are three or four others that are quite accessible in Kenya.
The Equator at Maseno, Kenya, 00°00′00.00″ 34°36′05.69″E
Nomadic Backpacker backpacking the Equator:
I crossed from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere multiple times:
Straddling the Equator:
I drank a beer at the Maseno Equator Hotel and toasted my dad who would have been 83 the day I visited:
I first crossed the equator in 2014, whilst staying in Bukittinggi, Sumatra, Indonesia:
In 2016, I travelled from Cairo to Cape Town. I stopped in Nanyuki, Kenya. There, the line of 0 degrees latitude passes right by the town. Nanyuki sits at 00°00′00.00″ 37°04′12.26″E:
I have since (2026) visited the Marco Zero do Equador/Equator Monument in Macapá, Brazil:
