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Hippos and Giraffe Poo
... no other way of putting it!). Our pilot, whose name we never did find out was very good at spotting where the hippos were hiding in the water but not so good when it came to social etiquette. Every time Pip, who was closest to him, tried to ask a question he shouted, "What?" In a very off putting manor. Hs answers were curt and he never offered information voluntarily but that did not deter Pip from getting some good info from him. Only the use of a darkened room ...
Lion in a tree? Check!
... but it was from a very far distance. We headed towards the lake to find a jeep stuck in the mud, creating a road block and causing us to detour around the park. We lucked out and continued to see a lot of amazing animals. This lake is known for having thousands of flamingos. We were told that there wouldn’t be any (because the rainfall in the area has been abnormally high, and the lake is high, so there were very few flamingos), but we saw a group all together on the ...
Volunteering in Naivasha
After three weeks of constant movement and new places, I had to say a very sad goodbye to all my new friends, and start the next phase of my trip. I had expected to be placed in Nairobi but I found out that I would be volunteering in a town called Naivasha, with one other volunteer. Naivasha is about an hour and a half from Nairobi. After three weeks of being constantly surrounded by other people, I now found myself living with a very quite Indian guy and a welcoming ...
I’m British, take a seat we'll have a drink
... be collected at 7am for our trip to the Soda lake and a ‘walk with the animals’ – with everything cleared away by 7am and no sign of anyone else we sat and waited for our lift, and waited, and waited. Clearly we were on African time and at 8am (and a call to our guide) Simon turned up and sheepishly told us that there had been a problem with the truck and the heavy rain in the night. We were still able to go on the trip though so that was all ...
Diahorrea Diaries
... deaf when I’m speaking), basically Wildebeest have a fantastic sense of smell hence the migration, when they smell rain and better grassland, the Zebra’s follow but have great eyesight so can warn when predators are near.
After that we happened upon about 25 Elephants of lots of different sizes which slowly walked up to the truck and around the front with no engine noise it was brilliant. The noise of them tearing up the grass as they walked ...
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