Kakamega, Kenya Travel Blogs

Tapdancing rats
Jun 30, 2005 (4 photos)

... confiscate the frozen peas or else I eat them before they get to the microwave. These peas were no petit-pois though. Got to Kakamega in the afternoon. It's got a run-down sort of air, but it's nice enough. Found a hostel, ordered dinner [Stef's first ...

Butterflies and 'that bucket'
Jul 1, 2005 (14 photos)

... enjoyable day, only dampened slightly by the matutu ride home. Due to the park road being part the way along the Kitale-Kakamega road, flagging down a matutu with space for 2 was difficult. Matutus only leave when full. We managed it, Stef on the back ...

chapati and children for christmas
Jan 1, 2007 (5 photos)

... each and every interesting sight along the way, from a vibrant green grasshopper to a pile of rotting garbage adjacent to the kakamega town open-air market, still very much alive and buzzing even on christmas day. we carefully weaved our way, death-defying ...

Our House, and Some Freaky Stuff
Dec 11, 2004

Ok everybody, had to spend an extra night in town last weekend due to the fact that i was glued to the toilet. Fun, fun, fun. Went back on monday, continued building, the walls are up to the top of the windows now. The roof will be started this coming ...

work and work. and protozoa.
Mar 1, 2007

... about a very interesting sewing project that she's organizing at her host organization. we were meeting at my favorite restaurant, kakamega dishes, a grimy little hole in the wall, evidently simply an extension of someone's house, where you can get beans ...

caps, kids, rats
Nov 25, 2006 (4 photos)

... gate. that's what this week has been like. peter and i are working to further develop FSD's programs here in kakamega, scouting new host organizations in the area and gathering information. as we do so, i'm compiling documents that describe each ...

Endings
Dec 24, 2004

Shouldn't have missed a week, can't remember what has been going on. Losing track of time, don't think about how long I have been here or how long to go, I am just here. Monday went to a clinic to have a look around. Dr ended up writing up scripts ...

a dive, a scam, a scene
Jan 18, 2007

... some peace corps volunteers who were doing deaf education around here, but they told me the place was in lurambe, not kakamega. we passed another large, unaesthetically squatty structure. LURAMBE PRIMARY SCHOOL. aaargh. not only were we out of kakamega, we ...

Sun owies
Dec 4, 2004

Hey everybody, Running around with a big Kenyan style grin from ear to ear. Have had a fantastic first week. Stayed in Kisumu for a few days when we first got here, then caught a matatu to Ugunja village, 2 hours away, and across the equator. Set up ...

something wonderful, something disgusting
Dec 24, 2006 (10 photos)

... , most without matches and having various degrees of cleanliness, at the mama watoto (lit. "mother children") supermarket in kakamega town. an enthusiastic young employee kneeled beside me, picking through the bin in a pressing attempt at assistance. "what ...

jerome, bacteria, and machine guns
Sep 23, 2006

... this formidable task. i awoke at 4:30 soaked in sweat. weird times. so this morning we left particularly early for kakamega (i wrote most of this blog during the week, on my laptop in bed at night), armed in our gumboots (galoshes, for ...

Kakamega forest
Jan 29, 2006 (8 photos)

Het was een lange rit van Lake Nakuru naar Kakamega forest, we deden er 8 uur over. Onderweg in El Doret gestopt om te lunchen. De beste atleten ter wereld (lange duur loop) komen uit El Doret, dat je het even weet. In El Doret heeft Julie, mijn zus, een ...

My Week With Madungu Primary School
Jun 26, 2009

... there clicking her fingers trying to get my attention! We had a big meeting int he late afternoon to decide on the path of the Kenya Project from now. Its not really any of my business any more but I sat in and contributed where I could. A lot of emphasis ...

First week in Shikunga
Dec 6, 2008

It's been an exciting week in Shikunga this week. We arrived Sunday late in the day after buying meds in Kakamega for the first camp, dumped our bags and made the quick walk to the new clinic. We'd heard rumours that the new clinic was slightly larger than ...

a gym, a slum, a beating
Feb 9, 2007 (5 photos)

... i cast a glance around the small, dank room, the window at the far end overlooking the flat, brownish tops of kakamega's cluster of downtown buildings from a rare 4th-story view.  the sight of that tarnished, crumbling town scattered haphazardly down ...

I eat Bananas!
Mar 29, 2007

Hey Every one! If you didn't know this before i have not really had a banana since i was about 6, and now i eat bananas- they have a lot more flavor than most of the food. So i have started eating them and i LIKE them!!! Any way i have no new ...

websites to view
Apr 3, 2007

Here are some websites to view if you would like to see what i am doing. I will add some for places we go. 1. www.volunteerkenya.org : this is where I am staying 2. www.raftafrica.com : this is where we went rafting

Habari?
Mar 29, 2007

I think that i have finally gotten every one on my e-mail list, but just in case ask around. I found a good internet cafe which is great because i will be able to e-mail more, it is fast and the electricity work all the time. The last time i wrote the ...

Kenya's National Test
Mar 29, 2007

Hello! This week we have had the national tests. Let me tell you it is NOTHING like what we do in the United States. There is no script and the students talk through the whole thing. The first thing the students did was make their own answer sheet, no ...

A more reliable Matatu!
Jun 22, 2006 (7 photos)

Well we had a lazy start, with us all up by about 9am, ok, i was up at 9 and everyone else already was!! Ronnie was organising our local taxi (known as a matatu). Our driver and conductor turned up, a right pair of characters, they were even helping us ...

Finally some wildlife!
Jul 18, 2007 (10 photos)

... planned on leaving Kenya quite quickly....hoping to get to less touristy places and less expensive!!! We caught the bus to Kakamega, which is in Western Kenya. This was the bus ride that really ran on "africa time". It was supposed to be 7 hours long ...

We really ARE IN AFRICA!!!!!!!!! WOOO!!
Jul 19, 2007

... better be! We're going to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro crater from Arusha. Anyways... now we're in Kakamanga, western Kenya, and the ride here was GORGEOUSSSSSSS... its like a temperate jungle...weird mix of tropical trees and flowers mixed with conifers ...

Nairobi im Schock
Aug 18, 1998

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Kakamega Forest and Sang'alo
Nov 5, 2006

... doughnuts) with plum jam. It was a real treat since there is usually only bread for breakfast. I then got ready to go to Kakamega forest which is an hour by matatu from Bungoma. Two of the other volunteers and I got there around 12pm and we bought a map ...

New SCI office in Kakamega
Sep 18, 2009 (10 photos)

Probably my favorite place in Kenya so far ~ it's like a little oasis up in the hills of the Western province.  I'd hate to live there because it takes forever & a day on uber-crappy roads, but once you get up in the hills it's like a different ...

Kakamega rainforest
Jun 24, 2006

... and am fighting to stay conscious. Fear not, because we soon break out of the forest and follow a road back to the camp site. Kakamega is home to Africa's most dangerous and aggressive cobra. If I had known that at the time, I may not have been so calm. ...

I'm Finally Here!
Mar 29, 2007

My loves, hello! I have been teaching in Kenya now for only three weeks but it already feels like I have lived here for months and months. I am going to title this experience Out of Comfort because this is the biggest stretch ...