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Nakuru Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nakuru, Kenya
Goat soup & the stoic baboon
This is a top pick! We left Saturday morning for a weekend trip to Nakuru. I was finally leaving the big city of Nairobi behind and seeing some of the African countryside and some of the real African magic I had been expecting. Not long after leaving Nairobi, we stopped at a ...
Life at an Orphanage
This is a top pick! ... they see fit. The International Humanity Foundation's (IHF) funds come from donations, individual sponsorships and grants. While I am in Kenya, I would like to meet all the alumni that I have gotten to know through the alumni database. There seems ...
An Idealist Gone Rogue
This is a top pick! ... . With some staff members and the 2 other volunteers, I decided to get our kids relocated to better homes in and around Nakuru. I was fighting on 3 fronts. The local government, the top management of our Center and our older kids who would definitely not ...
the International Humanity Foundation (IHF)
This is a top pick! ... a set of facts about the International Humanity Foundation (IHF) with you, a set that especially concerns their Nakuru Center in Kenya. However, we must admit that we will concentrate on the dominant negative aspects, rather than the positive ones, ...
The Safari
This is a top pick! ... as one of the most pleasurable experiences of my life... Woke up at 5.45am. Left in Ivan's jeep at 6.15am. Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park. Milena and I had been waiting for this for a long time. The entrance fee was $60 for muzungus and there ...
Child Pregnancy
This is a top pick! I didn't wake up well today. Initially I had a stomach ache which later morphed into a headache. Do not have high fever just yet, but feel that it can happen any minute. It could be malaria; could be something I contracted from the water or anything that ...
Nakuru
... around everyone and down the six inch aisle, and I half climbed, half-fell out the door but here we were in beautiful downtown Nakuru, Kenya. We picked our way across the street to the Hotel Kunste. It was quite a lot like playing the old video game, ...
Volunteering at Hadassah School - Part 2
[Rich] - On our first weekend in Nakuru, we finally found some time out from the intensity of the volunteer work, by visiting the Merica Hotel, which not only has a nice pool, gym and restaurant, but also hot showers!... We have since frequented the ...
nakuru
today was a driving day, from naivasha to nakuru town, where myself and two others had to buy food for our cooking duty for the evening. we then drove on for 4 hours up to a cmapsite at eldoret. the roads here are terible, but the views on ...
Jambo!!!
Hello- Today I'm back in Nairobi after a 5 day safari in Kenya. I chose to do mine in the Samburu area rather than the more popular Maasai Mara- and I was not disappointed. From Samburu we drove through the great Rift Valley and stopped to explore ...
Starting to miss home a bit more now :(
Ok a little update for u guys..i miss it at home now which feels weird, but it's ok.. Saturday I went to Thompsons Waterfalls with Melanie, Marianne and Anna and Nick (who drove us) and that was awesome. Went over the equator and got the whole ...
The Work
... · Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) · CARE: the world's second (or third?) largest NGO · Pyrethrum Board of Kenya: a parastatal semi-government organization (aka: "necessary evil") which, by law, must buy and sell all Kenyan pyrethrum ...
It's raining, but who cares!
... nbsp;unscheduled stop found us at a service station and some of the group checked out the washrooms. They were the pits! Lake Nakuru is a gorgeous lake situated amid rolling hills. Lunch was hurried as it had started to rain! We had to ...
a camping we shall go
... with a warning, shoo, this was def going to be an interesting journey! We drove to our home for the first night, lake nakuru national park, awesome huge salt water lake packed with pink flamingos, so so pretty! did a game drive round the lake and saw a ...
Ready to see some Rhino's...*hick*?
... a buck. Well as long as I learn no harn done. Now I am off to Jinja in Uganda which is around a 9 hour bus ride leaving Nakuru at 10 tonight so I should arrive around 7. Still trying to find a way to get to the bus station but I'll figure a way... I ...
De eerste grote dieren.
Gisteren hadden we afgesproken om vandaag naar Crescent Island te gaan. Dit ligt ongeveer 100 kilometer naar het Westen. Het was bijna 2 uur rijden en ligt 80 kilometer onder de evenaar. Het is een eiland waar verschillende wilde dieren leven. We reden ...
17/07/09
Today as we are all tired and we are taking stock of what we have done to date, we decided to take the day of. We had a late morning, when I say late, we still got up at 7 am and had breakfast. Now it was time for the kids to start doing a spot of home ...
How are you?
... of other people who seem to come and go. The school we have been volunteering at has about 170 children from the slum area around Nakuru, some living in self-made huts on the edge of the waste dump. The school provides meals for the kids (a runny porridge ...
Lake Nakuru
We departed the mountain lodge early in the morning and drove to the floor of the Rift Valley on our way to Lake Nakuru. We made a brief stop at Nyahururu Thomson Falls. They were absolutely stunning! There were a few curio shops that we checked out too. ...
The Orphanage Of All Orphanages...
... we all walked back to camp, and had a good time discussing our interactions with the young ones. The following day we visited Nakuru National Park, however I will talk more about that on my next entry...We did get a chance to spend time with the children ...
Asante sana (thank you)
... animal ever, I'm sure they disprove evolutionary theory - Graham) crowing We won’t miss the nose blowing in London Nakuru (in Maa language literally meaning city of dust) as it’s much blacker than that in London UK! We ...
Another Hot Spa
... strange how we kept having to traverse through Kampala and Jinga, it seemed that we were travelling without going anywhere. Kenya is a complete surprise all the time. We must be completely ignorant of what to expect so are constantly amazed ...
this is why |i traveled here
... brekky from Nick 2 with eggs and sausages and toast. We packed up and left the lovely site and headed south again to Lake Nakuru where there is a national park. We drove along the isolated roads past very basic villages and loads of goats on or near the ...
16/07/09
This morning we are leaving the farm for the day and heading for Lake Nakuru to see how the pink flamingos are behaving. So we went in the land rover again and drove out of town for an hour until we reached the national park and after paying the entry fee ...
Dodging Tragedy
I will never forget the horror of a child disappearing behind the hood of a car. He bolted without looking in front of us-we had no hope of stopping-and for an eternal split second I couldn't see him. My heart held its breath as my body lurched forward ...
15/07/09
So as today we are flying to the farm we packed our cases and they will follow by road: E.T.A. around 5pm but we will see. So we went on a last game drive before arriving at the air strip by 10am. The flight was a little bouncier than I would like but we ...
Safari through Kenya
I've decided to just lump all the safari info in one blog. One map point also - these 'ol 'puters over here a dang slow. Basically, we saw a load of animals of all shapes and sizes that you'd expect to see in any african wildlife book. ...