Hello all... Where do we pick up from...? Oh yes. From Kampala in Uganda we arrived in Nakuru and our Kenyan Masai, that we had met previously, picked us up. We had agreed to meet and discuss the possibility of him being our guide and taking us North into the depths of Kenya and into his village. He'd organized some accommodation for us in Nakuru which made life easier. While in Kenya previously, we explained to him about our travels and our need for budgeting and this communication had clearly been received as he took us to the cheapest accommodation possible. [View Full Entry]

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Oct 14 - Flew to Nairobi from Joburg and met up with Robbie Oct 15 - Spent the day in Nairobi. We thought we would be clever, and walk from our beautiful hotel, The Fairmont Norfolk, to the downtown business center, get some breakfast , and do some shopping. Before you know a local approached us and struck up a conversation. We engaged with him and asked him where some stores were. He took us to a street with many local stores. Two more locals then approach us to try to get us to go to their stores. The 3 of [View Full Entry]

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Turkana, Northern Kenya … “This is Africa!” Not sure if it stems from the residual joy of the recent election of our 44th President or the exotic, challenging allure of Mount Kilimanjaro, but going to Kenya has always been very high on my travel wish list. And now, this wish has come true! As part of my induction at Merlin ("Medical Emergency Relief InterNational"), the NGO that I have recently begun working for, I am spending the next two weeks in Eastern Africa to get a visual appreciation and a general sense of some of our p [View Full Entry]

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My second leg of the adventure started when I bid farewell to Edgar on the evening of the 22nd and flew into Masai Mara the following morning. No words can really describe the Masai Mara. It is one of the most beautiful, out of this world places I have ever been. And I don't say that lightly. From the moment you arrive you know this is a special place. It is romantically intoxicating, from the landscape to the literally millions of animals that live there. You get the immediate sense that you have left the human world and entered the animal [View Full Entry]

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An early morning, quick breakfast and checkout and we were picked up by our driver Joseph to go to the Wilson airport for our flight to our safari lodge. Arrived with lots of time to spare. We boarded the plane, taxied out to the runway, did some ‘function tests’ and then went back to the terminal as one of the engines was acting a little funny. So we disembarked, waited, and then boarded again. This time we were able to take off. The flight was only about 40 minutes and we only went up to 12000 feet, but as soon as [View Full Entry]

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A personal wake up call at 5:45 (the tents don’t have telephones) to start off the day, along with the sounds of birds chirping, etc. A quick cup of tea and the 3 of us were off for our morning game drive. Today we had Anthony. We thought William had been a good guide, knowing where the rhino was, saving the lion for last, but Anthony was much more talkative and told us more about the park and the animals. Right outside the lodge gate was a herd of elephants. Good morning. We saw a lot of the same animals - [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys, Well I know you might have thought the next blog was going to be about Moshi and Mt. Kilimanjaro but unfortunately there won't be one. We left Zanzibar and arrived in Moshi pretty excited to some trekking on Kili but the weather just would not co-operate with us. We ended up staying there for two days waiting out the weather and it only changed for the worst. We never got to do any hiking due to the super rain fall and to make it even worse we never even saw Mt. Kilimanjaro the whole time we were there :( [View Full Entry]

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12th. August : British Airways flight arrived at 9 PM at Jomo Kenyata International Airport, Nairobi. I was met by Gibson, a Kikuyu from Cheli and Peacock. Nice man. He drove me to the House of Waine, in Karen district, outside Nairobi for overnight stay. The district is named after Karen Blixen of "Out of Africa" fame. After a few drinks and roast chicken dinner, I retired to bed a bit late, around 11.30 PM. Gibson was to come back in the morning to take me to Wilson Airport to catch flight to Masai Mara. I hit the pillow and just [View Full Entry]

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Today for once we didn't wake up especially early but we still had to get our stuff ready and set out at the front gate ready for the buses. I stocked up on soda and candy since it was going to be a six hour drive and around nine o'clock we headed out to Masai Mara. We stopped at Nakumat for some snacks and from their drove for four hours and stopped at a curio shop for lunch and they tried to rip me off with an old sword. After awhile we arrived at the Masai Mara camp. We opened up [View Full Entry]

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Today we woke up bright and early for breakfast which was bacon and eggs. We had an all day game drive and we saw lions, gazelle, elephants, giraffes, zeebras, water buffalo, and one black rhino. After a few hours we stopped for lunch in an open area of the forest. We made sandwhiches and ate them quickly and soon the monkeys came out and ate the scraps we had left. And before I could even say anything a monkey ran behind Ms.Genna, jumped on her and stole her banana peel right out of her hand. I bursted out in laughter when [View Full Entry]

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