Hotel Greton Nairobi
Tsavo Rd, City Centre Nairobi, Kenya
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MAGNIFICENT MASAI MARA
After being conducted by taxi directly to the Big Time Safaris office in Nairobi, I agreed to a 7 day safari to Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Samburu Reserve. The next day after a 5 hour bumpy minibus ride, I arrived at the Big Time Safaris camp. I had a large fixed tent on a concrete platform with an attached washroom facility and electricity. I was …
NAIROBI-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC HEART OF KENYA
Nairobi, city of 8 million, with its attendant traffic jams and parking problems. City of skyscrapers and slums. Everyone hustling to recover from Kenya's recent political and therefore economic problems. Sunday I am off to sunnier coastal climes, Malindi.
MY FIRST LEOPARD SIGHTING IN KENYA
My first leopard sighting in Kenya occurred today at the Nairobi Safari Walk Park. And what a beautiful captive specimen! I also viewed some rare pygmy hippos. But the highlight of the day was at the Sheldrick Animal Orphanage, where I petted a cheetah and as I rubbed its ears it purred like a cat! Well it is a cat. Then the zoo keepers actually …
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Where am I?
Good morning...um, not Africa yet, oh yes, it's still London. The Hilton did very well accommodating an additional 350 people at very short notice, so we all enjoyed a nice breakfast! Although not quite as African as my morning should have been. Had to be back at the terminal around 8am - only a short 5minute walk! Although, this time met with long queues ...
A Kenyan kaleidoscope, part 1
... modern technology adds to the discombobulation. At one stage we found ourselves in a four-wheel drive bouncing over the plains of the Maasai Mara with our guide, a genuine Maasai warrior, checking Wikipedia on his mobile phone to confirm the astronomical fact we’d just told him (that contrary to what he learned in school, Pluto is no longer considered a planet).
A week before that magical moment, we’d landed in Nairobi – ...


