{UAH} A scruffy-looking Australian has been greeted as "Jesus" in Kenya

Aussie traveller's Kenya trip hailed as second coming of Christ

 By 

nine.com.au staff

Mr Christos poses for a selfie with a fan.

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A scruffy-looking Australian has been greeted as "Jesus" in Kenya where excited locals welcomed the long-haired, bearded and barefoot traveller as their Lord and saviour.

Former Perth resident Daniel Christos said since he arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi he had been followed by adoring crowds with their phones at the ready.

"Every single corner I walk on in Nairobi, I have noticed someone either taking a photo or video," he told Kenya's The Star.

"While hundreds of times a day I hear people calling out 'Jesus'."

Many of his admirers posted photos on social media with the hashtag #JesusinNairobi taking off.

Mr Christos, who worked as a software engineer in Perth, said he had never claimed to be the Messiah but his low-maintenance look had led to hundreds of Africans calling him Jesus.

He said all the attention was "a bit overwhelming", so much so that he now fears walking the streets of Nairobi where he is regularly mobbed.

Before he set off on his non-stop trip, Mr Christos said he learnt in his early 20s that office life was not for him.

"It was awful. I was getting grey hairs. I was only 22, stressed, tired and hardly sleeping and drinking like 20 coffees a day," he said during an appearance on Kenyan Television.

"I went travelling and basically never stopped. It was a much nicer way for me to live my life ... I just kept going.

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