The alarm went off at 03:45, but it didn't really wake us up, because we were basically awake the whole night due to one or two mosquitoes and the creaking bed and hard cushions. By 04:00 we were at the gate and the taxi was one time. As Michael expected we were at the bus [...]
Caro woke up early to do the last finishing touches on her assignment before submitting it. Hugo slept until passed 09:00. We decided we would stay another night at the guesthouse instead of trying to find a place closer to the bus station. When Hugo went down to inquire about this they asked what we [...]
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 [...]
