Tag: kenya
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Safari, Days 6-8: Ol Kinyei Conservancy and Our Safari Comes to an End
We flew from Samburu to our final camp near the Masai Mara National Reserve. We saw all sorts of animals on our approach: zebras, elephants, wildebeests, all roaming around. In fact wildebeests had to be shooed off the field so we could land. Our driver and guide George and Tim were waiting for us and…
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Safari, Days 4-5: Samburu
We flew from Amboseli to Samburu National Reserve in a Safarilink Cessna 206 (our takeoff was slightly delayed as they had to shoo zebras off the runway, you know, as so often happens). We arrived in the mid-afternoon and were immediately taken on a game drive. Each location we visited was unique – the terrain,…
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Safari Days 2-3: Where We See Still More Animals and Nearly Get Stuck in the Mud
We left the Nairobi Tented Camp and drove to the Porini Amboseli Camp inside the Selenkay Conservancy the borders Amboseli National Park. It was a 5 hour drive (and the only drive of the trip, thank goodness – all other travel to parks was via small plane) and was our chance to experience the Kenyan…
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Safari Day One: Where We Encounter A Veritable Bushel of Critters
As I mentioned in my previous post, we arrived in Nairobi at 6am after an easy 7 1/2 hour flight from Paris. Our first hurdle was a pretty confusing customs experience. We had all of our paperwork (e-visas, vaccination records, passports) all done and ready to go but the customs guy in our line was…
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East with the night
I’m paraphrasing the title of a great book (well, I thinker’s great, anyway) West with the Night, a memoir by Beryl Markham of her life in East Africa. Yes, at last our big adventure begins! We leave for Paris today, where we will layover for two days before making the last push to Nairobi. We…
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Life does indeed go on, kinda painfully
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted so here’s a quick update: the rental is all fixed up and restored to its former glory good condition! It took us about two months to get everything fixed once the tenant was well and truly gone (junk hauled away, cleaning, bathrooms redone, general repairs) then we…
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