Our alarm went off at 06:00. We got up and took showers, closed the tent and packed everything away. At 06:50 we requested and Uber and then went to park the car and lock everything. At 07:00 the Uber arrived and took us to the airport. There was very little traffic so we got to [...]
Today we're heading back to Nairobi as we're flying to Addis Ababa on Wednesdays. We weren't originally planning on visiting Ethiopia during this trip as we weren't up for the bureaucracy involved in getting a visa and also the added distance. Being so close, however, we started looking at prices for flights. It is obviously [...]
We got up early and had breakfast with the Aucamps. Today they're visiting one of the Yasha Ministry schools and we're going with. We offered to drive with our vehicle and more people came in another one. The other car overheated after about 2km so in the end it was just our car with 5 [...]
This time we remembered to set an alarm and woke up at 06:00. Sometime during the night a vehicle dropped off a female ranger and the two proceeded to talk loudly late into the night. Caro was luckily blissfully unaware of this, otherwise there would have been big trouble. Before we got up a vehicle [...]
We didn't hear any lions during the night, only hippopotamus. A strong wind was however blowing all night dampening most other sounds. We forgot to set an alarm and only got up at 08:00. We quickly packed up and saw a safari vehicle passing us. While eating breakfast we saw the vehicle standing still on [...]
Caro set an alarm for 06:00, but as it still looked pitch black outside we snoozed until 06:30. We quickly got up and just put on warm clothes. By 06:40 we were in the Trust’s Land Cruiser with Marias behind the wheel. Within the first 500m, just going down the escarpment from the office Hugo [...]
We planned to get up early, but since we were awake until midnight we snoozed for an hour and only got up at 08:00. We ate the leftover pizza for breakfast while packing in the last things. We said our goodbyes to everyone. An Italian couple and a German couple are also heading back to [...]
This is the longest we have stayed in one place, but it did us good. Nairobi is a wonderful place and we can see why there are so many expats here. On Friday night we went to Purdy's Arms, a pub type restaurant like Slug and Lettuce. We could just as well have been in [...]
We set our alarm for 06:30 to get an early start on the gruelling road (as described by others) to Nairobi. We left by 07:25. After a few kilometers we saw giraffe next to the road with sheep herders walking behind them. We reached Emali on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway by 09:00. We tried to look [...]
We left Mama Simba’s Homebase by 08:40 after receiving a warm goodbye. We first headed back to Milan’s Restaurant as we wanted more Paneer Samosas, but unfortunately they did have any that early in the morning. We then bought some beef samosas at another place which wasn’t as good. After using the last of our [...]
