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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 minibus with a lifting roof (to allow better viewing), we were fighting for prime photo position. At some points it seemed a little "touristic" (i.e. "we are now heading towards the Baboons"). In...

A selection of my photos made in Kenya and Tanzania

Three months in Kenya, teaching, living and travelling.

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!

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.

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.

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 dislike of animals was awesome.Flamingos and Rhinos tomorrow, then off to the coast.(I'd love to be writing longer entries, and I promise I will as soon as I can - I have much rambling to do.)

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.