Just a small update months after I returned home... Leaving Kampala was not that bad, cause I was really looking forward to spend another week in Kenya before I had to go home. I travelled by bus from Kampala and planned to go to Eldoret for a few days before I joined James to go to Lodwar, where he work On the way the plans changed, and I branched off to Kitale, and then straight to Lodwar. When I arrived, I had spent 27 hours in a bus or a matatu!! Kitale express was not much of an express..ot stopped several [View Full Entry]

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After the trip to Murchinson I had less than a week left in Uganda. Monday was a public holiday, so I went to Entebbe with a collegue from DED to meet Denis and his daughter Vicky. She was so cute walking around the whole day with my way to big sunglasses with a big smile! We had some nioce food, went to a small zoo, walked in the botanical garden, and had a great day! The rest of the week I was in the office of DED, had a very nice "thanks-and goodbye" dinner with Denis and Ina, and a beer [View Full Entry]

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During the weekend I went on a trip to Murchinson falls national park. I went with the Red Chili, and ended up in a car with five other norwegians!! Had a great trip, the camp was good, and a lot of nice people. We did not spot as much animals as in Maasai Mara, and I was not as excited to see a lion 50 meters away after watching the lions having their breakfast just a few weeks before. the boat trip on the Nile to see the falls were nice, and we experienced how quickly it can change from sunshine [View Full Entry]

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We arrived Kampala and the traffic jam just before seven, and got a matatu to Muyenga were the office of DED is, and also the guesthouse were I would stay. Just arriving and departing town took us between one and two hours! I immediately liked my guesthouse, a big room with a balcony, and a kitchen were I could prepare my own food! Its ok to eat in restaurants, but for breakfast I prefer bread, juice and coffe, and its not always available. The next day I met Ina, shes the coordinator of the sanitation part in DED Uganda. She took [View Full Entry]

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Busia is a small town divided in two by the border between Kenya and Uganda. I arrived on the Kenyan side - and Denis was there to meet me and we walked to Uganda. I met Denis in a course in sustainable sanitation in Oslo last summer, and it was very nice to see him again after all these months! Busia is hot and very dusty! I tried to find some info about it in my guidebook, but I didnt really find much. If I didnt know anyone there I dont think it would ever occur to me to stop over [View Full Entry]

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After my trip to Maasai Mara I went back to Nakuru to stay a few more days with ROSA. It turned out to be just a few lazy days, and that was ok with me. Spent some time in the city, met a girl from couchsurfing - and she actually worked at the beauty saloon I was heading for later that day. Then I was off to Kisumu and on my way to Uganda. I went with James, and we stayed with his cousin Cornelius and hos family. They had a very nice house on the hills outside Kisumu, were it [View Full Entry]

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I booked a trip with Pega tours in nakuru to go to maasai mara. I spend two nights there, and had one evening safari, one full day, and one in the morning. A lot of driving around on bumpy roads, and I saw a lot of animals. The camp was good the food was very good - and I met a girl from austria which I had a good time with, so a perfect safari! Showers with spiders (just shower after dark without a flashlight and you wont even notice) and ants in your trousers - these things you get used [View Full Entry]

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I hadnt planned much for the holiday, and my initial plan was to stay in mombasa during new year. I arrived at a very shabby hotel - all though the staff was very friendly. Mombasa is a big city, and I hadnt read anything about what to do there, but I knew there were beaches! I tried to find a new place to stay, but everything was fully booked, so i travelled to Malindi the next morning. Ive become kind of a morning person here, and at nine I had already had breakfast, I had been to town to check my [View Full Entry]

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After celebrating Christmas in Nakuru it was time to move around to see more of Kenya. I started out in Nairobi, meeting Banus and his family. I met them in a park not far from the YMCA were I stayed, and discovered a very nice park! Big enough to walk around for hours, and also a nice place to just hang out and relax. The following day I visited a coffe plantage - Sasini coffee! The mamager is a friend of Banus from when he worked for Sasini. I visited the fields of coffee trees, saw the process from drying the [View Full Entry]

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Chrismas in Kenya! I actually hadnt thought much about how to spend the christmas. But then I met a norwegian woman who lives outside Nakuru with her kenyan husband and children. When she heared from some women at a conference she joined that there were a norwegian in egerton she wanted to get in touch, and I met her for a short while in town - and she invited me to spend the christmas with her family. I had an almost norwegian christmas eve, the food is a bit different - but very nice! Also - delays are not a stressfactor [View Full Entry]

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