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Eldoret Slideshow
Eldoret
Travel Blogs from Eldoret, Kenya
Will's Bar and our night in prison
This is a top pick! ... the cost [metaphorically speaking] then all these countries would be less dependent on the West and external aid. I reckon. Getting to Eldoret, we wandered around for quite a while - first to buy bus tickets to Uganda and then trying to find somewhere ...
Quick stop in "El D"
This is a top pick! ... so I found him a magazine off the bus and he was very happy. Eventually we all made it through customs and hit the road again. Eldoret isn't too far from the border so we made it there fairly quickly. This was just a stopover for the night so not much ...
The Clashes
This is a top pick! ... told us the reaction was instantaneous. Tribalism had been called into play, and the minority tribe in Eldoret, the Kikuyu (but the majority in Kenya, and the tribe of Kibaki) was targeted with attacks and burnings. This led to some ...
Kenya Summary
This is a top pick! ... , 1.5 nights and just over 1 day in each place. We travelled an average of 213km per day, all on public transport. Kenya Summary Weren't all that impressed with Kenya to tell the truth. Maybe it was our nasty initiation, up in the north where ...
Nairobi to Eldoret, Kenya
This is a top pick! Hello, so we finally got around to writing a proper entry, quicker than we thought because we have been stuck here in Eldoret, Kenya for a few days due to truck trouble. We are both fine, having fun and enjoying the company of some new people on board the ...
Gorilla trekking in Uganda
This is a top pick! ... on to Nile river camp site in Jinja to party the night away. With hangovers we crossed the border back into Kenya again and are now back in Eldoret about to go to Tanzania to the Serengeti and Ngorogoro crater for some more safari game drives. What a ...
Just a quick one
This is a top pick! Hello, Just a quick one to let you all know we're fine and that no, we haven't been eaten by lions. Currently in Eldoret, Kenya but will be moving on to Uganda in a week or so hopefully. Have loads of new people on the truck which is much better and ...
Masai Mara to Eldoret
... water trick. It really does drain out in opposite directions after crossing just a metre onto each side of the equator. Our stop over for the night was in Eldoret, a nothing town except to get some good rest in before we brave another border the next ...
chapati and children for christmas
... juice, often provided at diners for just this purpose. for some reason i suddenly thought of the barclay's bank (a very large chain in kenya) executive that carmel had told me about a few weeks prior. this business suit-clad man had just shown up at the ...
Lake Naivasha
... laid back and friendly and why can't the English be more like them, because they seem very stressed. I agree! He said in Kenya nobody is in a hurry. Hakuna Matata! Next we went to see a school where there were some absolutely adorable little children who ...
Truckin' Along
... - Uganda is the most densely populated rural country in the world. Uganda's population is roughly the same as Australia's. Kenya is quite different. The land here has also largely been deforested, but much of the land lays fallow. ...
work and work. and protozoa.
120 SHILLINGS PER POUND. WE ARE THE CHEAPEST! the splintering wooden doors of the olympic butchery, carefully lettered in slanting red handwriting, were splayed open like the red-and-white marbled carcass hanging proudly in a hole in the shanty's ...
Kenya, home of Obama
... we collapsed into bed. What a night! Start: Phil and Clare's home, Kampala, UG. 09:30 End: Green Pastures Hotel, Eldoret, KENYA. 17:40 Distance Traveled: 355 km Road Conditions: lots of detours on rough dirt track, heavy traffic making passing ...
one day three months in
... ; i sat there listening to the rushing sound of my own breathing, suddenly realizing how exhausted i was. three months in kenya. it's incredible how much a person can change in 90 days, and even more incredible how much the world can ...
drive day to eldoret
not a very interesting day today, just driving back through kenya to eldoret for a one-night ...
Last minute shopping...
Stopped off to stay in Eldoret today, bit slower paced than the last jam packed couple of days. Did some shopping for souvenirs with the street traders - bought a carved elephant and rhino for a bargain price...getting used to haggling now; not quite sure ...
Overnight in Eldoret
Popped into Eldoret for the night on the way to Jinja. The 'campsite' included several high-end units & the bar to support the whole operation was a site! You reached the bar after walking down a long curving tunnel...perhaps 30 meters ...
Nakuru National Park
We drove to Eldoret in Kenya which we used as a base to visit Lake Nakuru National Park. On the day of arrival at Eldoret I went on a visit to a local farm. There we saw some newborn calves and lots of cows and dogs. We also saw horses and a bees nest. ...
Halloween at the Sally Test Center
... It was Kelvin's birthday, and I had the misfortune of sitting next to him at dinner. I say misfortune, because the custom in Kenya is to "wash" people on their birthday. This is to say, when you see someone and it is their birthday, you throw ...
It's a Chicken!
... shut up) fabric for a shirt, and bought it at a reasonable price. A quick note on a "reasonable price": fabric in Kenya goes for about 100ksh to 300ksh per meter, depending on how good the fabric is. Embroidered fabric can be a bit ...
Bummer
Bummer This past weekend Don and I stayed in Eldoret to rest and recuperate while everyone else went white water rafting in Uganda. I wasn't feeling well, and had been having some lower abdominal pains and another bout of ...
