Nakuru Travel Blogs

Lake Nakuru was our first Game Drive of the trip. A small National Park in the Nakuru area, it wasn't anything like the Masai Mara or Serengeti are made out to be - more like a giant Woburn Safari Park. It was, however, quite a good introduction to the local wildlife. With eight of us crammed into…

A selection of my photos made in Kenya and Tanzania

Three months in Kenya, teaching, living and travelling.

My first camping trip every! But it was so great!!!!

Two weeks in amazing Africa - Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda overland!

A month long trip making the most of the short time there. Lots of travel from Safaris, to climbing mountains, partying in nairobi, and lying on the beach.

Brian and I quit our jobs in Holland and left Amsterdam in October 2005. We spent several months backpacking from Ethiopia down to South Africa then up to Zambia. Heres just a few highlights of our trip.

10 months of working as a volunteer for a dutch orginasation in Kenya. also some traveling in Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

Staying in Ruhegeri during a chuch election means a lot of drums playing all the time. But going out for the gorilla hike makes it unik. Then falling asleep New Years Eve in a African nightclub just ads a little twist to the whole day.

Well I've finally met my group and we're off to Uganda.  My roomie at Hotel Boulevard, Alice the kiwi, is lovely.  We've chatted loads.  I'm slowly but surely chatting to each person.  It seems the people I have the most in common with are those leaving the tour early either on …

My brother and I spent about 7 weeks last summer backpacking our way through Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The original plan started with just with climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, but kind of grew to include safaris, white water rafting and a bit of scuba diving!

So, Tommer and I have been safariing for a few days in the @world famous@ Maasai Mara. It's pretty cool.We spent the morning hanging out with lions (I think we took about a 150 pictures - apparently catching the photographic essence of sleeping lions takes a lot of work), which despite my general d…