Kenya Travel Blogs

My proclivity for traveling started at an early age, and the one destination that always enchanted me--even at that early age--was Africa; particularly an African safari.  Somehow I knew that my travel resumé would be inadequate unless I donned a downturn brim, safari khak…

Up at 6am. Got a lift to school with Daniel. Arrived at school very hungry so I ate my chocolate bar. At 9am, the pre-unit teacher came to my classroom and told me that I was not going to be teaching the little ones any more, just the ones later in the day. I assumed that the arrangement meant that…

  Since leaving Michigan in January, Scott and I held open British Airway tickets to Sudan from Kenya. We booked seats for the 1:00 a.m. flight to Khartoum. Our final days in Nairobi were hectic; writing letters and post cards, shopping for keepsakes, and shipping small boxes home containing …

Today was another long but great day! We started off the morning with a quick breakfast of fresh fruit and peanut butter toast, then we loaded up our backpacks with some jump ropes and headed out to see the Maasai people. The drive took a while because of the traffic, but I loved getting to see tha…

This is another long journal entry but it was an awsome day   Today was the most amazing day ever it even I think it may even beat the gorillas just. I was awake at 3.15 am and up at 3.45 am. I went and had a wash to wake up a bit. And went to the truck and then Sue turned up and told me tha…

7:30 am in Serena Lago Manyara. I am sitting on a hammock in the pool overseeing Lake Manyara. As I am writing, tons birds are all around and every once in a while I have a visit of one of those African insects… sometimes I jump as I am thinking Anofoles (malaria’s mosquito) wants to welco…

THE BIGGEST DANGER I have decided that the biggest danger here is transportation.  I have been on a bus that had 2 tires blow off and wires sticking out of the "good" ones.  I have also been on a bus that crashed.  Our bus ran into another one.  The front window shattered ev…

Got a nice welcome from the girls when I got back.  Unfortunatley, Lexus and Thu who were thinking about meeting us in Zanzibar after a short trip to Arusha were unable to make it.  So, we shared stories then went to lunch with the Wayne's World gang.  The boys were making ugali that night, but …

We had to wake up at 9 this morning so that we could get breakfast before heading up north.  The hotel we stayed at was right on the Indian Ocean and we ate breakfast practically on the beach!  There were some guys out there giving some camel rides to people who were up for it.  I wa…

The image I took of the leopard was an amazing experience. A colleague at Nairobi University had arranged for a driver to collect me very early so that we could get out into the park at dawn. Which we did, not sure how they managed it but we were the first vehicle on the park that morning. At first…

Mombasa was much more beautiful than i had thought...Had only imagined what it would be like waking up to see the blue ocean very morning uganda being a land locked country......I still live in awe of the scenery and the fun we had.....A group of oveer thirty strangers from all over Africa got toga…

More later: But basically a trip to Mombasa and a bit of Safari and diving in there too.

I was working on a merchant ship that was hauling food to Africa for the United Nations and our ship spent 12 days in Mombasa in the fall of 2008. The captain of our ship arranged a photo safari  to Tsavo with a long time associate of the shipping company in Mombasa, Wilmina Mpapale with Milma…

Woke up about 6am and packed up the tent. Had mango, passionfruit, cornflakes and baked beans on toast for breakfast. Left camp at 6:50am and didn't make it far down the road when Sam realised he couldn't get the truck out of first gear. We all hopped out and he realised he couldn't fix it so we ha…

Not an extremely exciting day but I did pet a 4 week old rhino.  It looked so bemused the whole time.  It kept stopping in its tracks to look at people and be petted.  It was kind of cute but also weird looking.  They put sun protection on it which made it look really cute. …