Blogs from Lake Naivasha, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, Africa - page 2

My good friends Maggie annd Paul whom I met in Jordan had kindly let me stay at there house in Naivasha for a coulple of nights before I relocated to their other house in Nairobi before I caught my flight back to England. I say house in Naivasha but it is more like a safari lodge -very luxurious, especially compared to where I have been staying elsewhere on my trip. On the drive up to the house we drove past a hippo who was feeding outside the water at night!! On my first morning in Naivasha I had a wander round the lakeside, it was part of a private wildlife park but my hosts worked for the people who owned it. It was fantastic as it was very similar to Hells gate NP as you could ... read more

There are so many spiders living in and on it that our tent (bright blue though it is) has practically become a part of the wildlife. The camp is teeming with life - thankfully not too much of the human kind, as we are enjoying the peace of so few other tourists that we have been fortunate to experience so far. From the tiniest ants though to giant but reclusive and antisocial hippos, and all in between, there is animal life all around us - all existing both alongside and also separate from each other, the various species observing individual patterns and paces of life, intersecting at various moments in time and space. Supporting them is the rich abundance and variety of plants and trees whose slow growth makes the animal movement seem wildly frenetic, yet ... read more

(Kovas writing) On the last day of our Kenyan trip, we spent the last of our money and food having a picnic at Hell’s Gate National Park. This park is fascinating because you can walk among the wild African animals like giraffes, zebras, warthogs, gazelles, impala, and baboons. Our driver, Milton, warned us to be careful of the baboons, but we had encountered baboons in other places and were confident that we could scare them away with loud noises. How wrong we were! We sat at the picnic table and hungrily unpacked the sandwiches, oranges, chips, and juice. Right before we unpacked the sandwiches, Rytas yelled ‘Babboon!’ In slow motion as we turned towards the baboon, it leaped over my mom’s head onto the picnic table. This male baboon was as big as eleven year old ... read more

# Tag 36 Es ist Sonntag Morgen und beim Verlassen von Nairobi ist alles ruhig. Kein Verkehrschaos, kein "Gehuppe", wenig Leute (im Vergleich zu einem Arbeitstag)... Ich starte heute meinen 6-Tages-Trip nördlich von Nairobi. Sobald die Stadt verlassen ist, beginnt eine extrem grüne Landschaft. Hier wird viel Ackerbau betrieben. Es geht nicht lange, und wir erreichen das Rift Valley. Vom einem Aussichtspunkt haben wir eine wunderschöne Sicht ins Weite... Nach mehrstündiger Fahrt erreichen wir unser erstes Ziel: den Lake Naivasha. Dies ist mein erster "richtiger" Safari an einem See und ich werde absolut nicht enttäuscht. Mit einem Boot gehts auf den See und man wird von Hippos, Pelikane, ein paar Flamingos und viele weitere Vogelarten begrüsst. Lake Naivasha, ein Süsswasssersee, ist einer der abflusslosen Seen in dieser Region. Das Wasser wird dem See nur durch Verdamp ... read more

Nick got up early and went cycling around Hells gate National Park, I elected to stay in the tent!!! I picked my bike, very close to the Raliegh Mustang I had as a wippa snappa (and probably the same size too - i am in Africa!) we entered the park which was a short cycle away from the campsite, the landscape was unreal. The volcano had shaped the rock in mad way. We cycled past Zebras and chased wart hogs trying to see how close we could get to them. About 20k in we jumped of the bike and watched the steam rising from the hydro elec plants on hill sides. Before entering the gorge we removed our shoes to walk through the hot water. We climbed out of the gorge to take in more of ... read more