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From the big city to Kisii on a boda boda bike for Christmas

Mark Mokua Maraga, 26, from Kisii County and a boda boda operator who is based at the junction of Kenyatta Avenue and Uhuru Highway in Nairobi. [James Wanzala/Standard]

Can you brave a six-hour journey with nothing else to shield you from biting wind apart from your clothes and a helmet?

Mark Maraga just did it. Nairobi to Kisii and back on a boda boda motorbike. He has done so many times, sometimes with a passenger in the pillion.

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