Diani Sea Lodge

Welcome to the Maasai Mara lately referred to as one of the new Wonders of the World. Enchoro is a Maasai word meaning "Natural Spring Water".<br><br>Enchoro Wildlife Camp is an affiliate member of the YHA-Kenya, which is a part of the worldwide network of Youth Hostels in the World.<br><br>YHA-Kenya enables you to explore Kenya on a budget while maximizing your fun, freedom and flexibility. At enchoro Camp everything comes ...

... this little international community in the middle of Kenya. I have been to the school to see my old students. They were really excited to see me so that was cool. I brought cameras for the entire class this time and it was so cute to watch them. It's weird to see a class of high school seniors that have never used a camera before. Some of them were trying to take pictures from the wrong side of the camera or could not figure out the flash. We just take this for granted ...

... cement poured down the back of my shorts and pants! In the end we all turned on George being the only boy, and also Yaya as we decided he was far too clean. On the way back to camp for lunch (and a wash) me and Vanessa picked up some trousers that we had had made by the local tailor out of kikoy (a kind of material). To buy the material and have the trousers made only cost around 5 pounds - very good value! We had the afternoon off project and went around Diani for some last minute ...

... year of Uni so was unable to come out for longer. Most of the time in camp was spent in the mess area. There was a large table where we ate dinner etc, a pool table, a small library of books (which were so good for the beach as I hadn't taken any out with me) a radio and various other things. Near to the mess area was a camp fire with benches around which we quite often would sit around in the evening and also toasted marshmallows on. On the other side of the ...

... traditional utensils such as a serving ladle made of a coconut shell. The tea is made with sugar, water and tea leaves, and was nice, but far too sweet for us. The children loved it and asked for seconds and thirds - possibly because it was one of the few things they would get to eat/drink all day. Our manual work for the day was digging 1.5 foot holes at intervals to put stakes in to build a fence to go around the orphanage. This, like building the foundations ...

... if anything they just went to the bar to take care of anything sad. I told him that this just wasn't true in my experience, which seemed to be very comforting for him to know. Jackson was very interesting, and was a true angel during that time. He wanted me to realize how blessed I was, and how blessed my family was, to have a grandmother that was so wonderful and had lived for so long. He reminded me that the life expectancy in Kenya was only around fifty ...

... eats a lot as I may have mentioned. Dinners usually contain 12 kg of meat. We needed meat for 3 days so we needed to find someone that was willing to kill a couple sheep for us. By a couple I mean 7. The meat arrived, warm, in big dripping grocery bags. As an added bonus we got all the bones too. The bones still had a lot of meat on them; someone really needs to show these guys how to cut up an animal. I loaded the bags ...

... der Stelle geruehrt), bekamen wir auf dem Heimweg noch zwei Schakale und ein ganzes Rudel Hyaenen vor die Linse. Letztere lebten in kleinen Felsspalten, woraus nach und nach auch immer mehr Junge heraus kamen. Unser Reiseleiter hatte uns am Sonntag zuvor noch gesteckt, dass mittlerweile so ziemlich alles, was in Kenia auf vier Beinen stand, in letzter Zeit geworfen hatte. Auch bei Elefanten, Zebras und Kudus gabs viel junges Wild zu bestaunen, vieles kaum aelter als ein ...

... We do have to cook our own meals but we each pitched in so it shouldn't be too bad. We're staying until late Sunday night, so we'll have plenty of time to relax and enjoy the sunshine (maybe get a bit of a tan). There are 10 of us from the volunteer group that I'm with from England, the US, Ireland, Italy, and Australia. We've all become good friends over the past week so we're ...

... to get away fast. The magic formula is Adrenalin, and it makes such a difference. I went out of the hedgerow and straight onto the road into the path of an oncoming car. I looked back once as I stepped onto the road to make sure Kirsty was running too, and strode onto the gravel. I honestly don't know what I would have done if Kirsty hadn't been running, and I couldn't have told you where the men were. I was only conscious of the two of us, and praying as I ran into ...