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- Nairobi
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Nairobi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Nairobi, Kenya
Soo much to do and so little time
... crash in the airport until it was light outside and just a little safer to take a taxi into town. For those that don't know Nairobi is know for the robbing part of it's name. One of the girls I met in Cairo from Germany had spent a year volunteering ...
Safe and Sound
... would make it to Nairobi. So, at approximately 730pm local time, after a 3hour layover in Amsterdam, I arrived safe and sound in Nairobi. By the time I cleared immigration and made it to baggage claim, it was about an hour later. But guess what, ...
Muchorwi Mornings
Mama Jane, Mama Salome to the rest of the community, is a mother, a farmer, a manager, a broker, a generous mother/aunt/grandmother, a supporter of the less fortunate: all components for sainthood. But the way her smile emerges in the corner of her eye ...
Kilaguni and Tsavo National Park
After the amazing pedicure we had tea and cakes... and our first view of some animals at the watering hole at Kilajuni Hotel. Then an late afternoon safari ride. The pictures our all of our friends we saw along the way. After our ride it we meet ...
Neno Evangelsim Centre
We attended church services at Neno Evangelism Centre, Apostle James Nganga is the pastor and our host for the conference. I can truly say that this is a "man of God" who move in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Apostle Nganga and his missions ...
Kibera's 2nd yoga class
Jumbo, Here is Kibera's second yoga class. It went so well. The girl just love class and are doing amazing. Today our driver was William. His wife Gladys is in charge of the WEEP women of Kibera. William told me that the women really ...
Dagje tussendoor.
Vandaag was eerder een rustige dag. Na het ontbijt reden we in de richting van Anna haar werk. We gingen naar een lokale markt in de buurt om wat fruit te kopen. Hierop gingen we naar het weeshuis. Op dat ogenblik was er maar één verpleegster, ...
UN World Refugee Day - real surpise in Nairobi
... a wonderful way to begin my African adventure. So no visit to the National Museum as planned. This can wait till my next Nairobi trip. Word of caution ... while walking along the city streets, several males came up to me and tried to engage in small ...
Lessons in travel, hospitals and queen cakes
... was a real blessing. Oliver was our driver and took us to the hospital - absolutely lovely guy who runs an orphanage in Nairobi with his wife - they have 250 kids coming into their day centre each day (it seems that being an orphan can also mean ...
Beatrice's Kids in the Kawangware Slum
Kawangware Slum - Outer Nairobi (Pictures to follow next week...my camera batteries croaked...) website to visit: www.rhemahopechildren.org I've been in Kenya a month now and I decided this past week that I needed to volunteer - to get out and into ...
Safari!
... at, drove their car too close to the prey and scared them off. Talked about pissed off. Enough safari ramble, have great photos that none of you will escape seeing upon my return. Time for me to go brave the streets of Nairobi for some ...
Kibera
... . There were lots of very interesting people there working in all sorts of areas like teaching, HIV, and more. Later we went in to Nairobi to a club called Black Diamond 'where most the muzungus hang out' lol. It was really good and nice to finally have a ...
Kenya
... ripped my new trousers. We waited 2 hours for them to get the truck out of the mud then we had a 6 hour drive back to Nairobi. We thought nothing else could go wrong as we set off. Everything was fine when we stopped for lunch. Food was lovely, I ...
We have arrived !
... a great sleep at Methodist Guest House in Nairobi. We had our first breakfast together this morning, followed by a tour of the Nairobi city centre and luncheon with the Rotary Club who briefed us on the next few days activity. The people are incredibly ...
Naar de Masaï markt.
Terwijl ik deze morgen wat langer heb uitgeslapen, daar ik me gisteren niet zogoed voelde, zijn de anderen terug naar het weeshuis gegaan waar Anna werkt. Daarna zijn ze nog op bezoek gegaan in een school. Even na twee waren ze terug thuis en na samen ...
Mathare Weep Center
Hello, This morning Mary and I went to the Mathare Weep Center. This is a small center however we had a great time. Read the captions on the photo's and it will tell you a little bit about the day. After we left Mathare I was able to go to ...
More details on the team
As I mentioned in the previous update, the team is doing well and staying healthy. There have been some problems sleeping and adjusting to the time zone. Its good to have our favorite nurse, Julie, there to take care of those types of ...
karen blixton
karen blixton berüehmt worde dur de film "out of afrika". jetzt isch im hus di erschti kaffi-farm g'si isch e ...
Nairobi Initial Itinerary
... of). Perhaps it would just be easier to remember that they were all within Kenya! Placement 2 - Homegrown (HG) Nairobi, Kenya Initial Itinerary: Week 1 Mon 24/11 Arrive Accra , picked up and ...
Jun 19, 2009
'Freeze!' - Policeman Plod's about...
... I extracted myself from this haven of comfort to visit Hell's Gate National Park, near a town called Naivasha, about 90 mins from Nairobi, and more exciting and cheaper than most other national parks because you can walk or cycle through it. So I set off ...
Pink Toenails
... cater to tourists, performing traditional dances and running country clubs and things like that. There is another place called Bomas of Kenya where they perform dances. We will be going there sometime as well. The land is covered with Acacia trees and ...
Oldonyonyokie Maasie Village the Manyatta
Hello, The pictures in that I just posted are of a plot of land. You will see the Elder of this plot some family members and the outside and inside of their Manyatta which is their home. The thing that is most amazing about this is a REAL ...
Mathare Slum & Nakaru
We have had a couple of amazing days distributing in Mathare Slum. On our second day, we entered the school which was completely chaotic - the school kids - 2000 of them again, and then additional children brought in from the slum...to put it in ...
Something new for us, something old for Em
Today (Wednesday, July 01, 2009) we went to Cana in the Mukuru slum, a school/clinic/orphanage that Emily has volunteered with in the past. It was a great day! We mostly just played with the kids and set up a time to return and help out in the ...
Had your teeth rattled loose yet?
... Kenya down a side street in Narok, got a few “hello mzungu” comments as I walked along, then onto a matatu bound for Nairobi, which Nelson nearly didn’t make it as he was in a shop buying DVDs lol. Of course the matatu doesn’t go ...
The end of week 1
... filmed, if that helps anyone with a visual). By the time we biked back to camp and took a packed matatu ride back to Nairobi, we were filthy and exhausted but very happy. Our youngest host brother Lawrence finished his midterm exams last week, so now ...
Nairobi and travel to Tanzania
Well Ive arrived in Africa My plan was to sleep on the plane, but no such luck. So, I thought I would get to the hostel and have a couple of hours kip before venturing out, again that didnt go to plan. 20 minutes after arriving I was in a ...
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