Kivi Milimani Hotel Nairobi

... Kasarani), and my workplace, and how things work (but I don’t think that anyone can be totally sure)! Work has been slow, fascinating, frustrating, motivating, emotionally demanding, depressing, hilarious, complicated, head-ache inducing, testing, satisfying, infuriating, depending on what mood I’m in when you ask me, but it is nearly always rewarding. My colleagues have always made me feel welcome, that’s for sure. I do get such a buzz ...

... br><br>Kenya is the main hub of all operations and serves the whole of Africa north of Johannesburg.<br>It not only provides a flying doctor service, but also has outreach clinics all over the continent. The outreach clinics provide specialists to remote areas for a month at a time, to carry out eg. operations or run clinics in small villages and there is a large emphasis on education.<br><br>My role is not with the outreach service, but with the flying doctor branch of ...

... passing through Laisamis and we are staying at the JeyJey Centre. We're all staying in rooms as it is cheaper than the normal camping fee that we pay. Chris told us that we had broken both our rear shock absorbers during the convoy. The left hand side (LHS) one had sheared off the bracket it was attached to and the right hand side (RHS) seals were broken.<br><br>Dist cov. = km<br><br>25th - Today's road would be a lot worse than yesterday we were ...

... 500 dollar permits are valid for that one specified day only. HOWEVER, after 2 hours we push back&#8230;sleepy, dozing, and take off.<br><br>You&#8217;d have thought dinner at the lounge was enough, but the theme for our entire 30 hour transit time to Kigali was to prove to be &#8220;it&#8217;s there; I&#8217;m bored, let&#8217;s eat&#8221;.<br><br>We land into Nairobi two hours after our scheduled 6.30am arrival. Aika had already warned our layover was too short to make ...

... immigration, and security guards have an immediate effect on you. For example, I paid my $25 single entry fee for the visa and had to get my own change before I got my passport back. I payed a $50 bill and the lady didn't have a $5 bill to give me. So she gave me a $10 and told me to go find some change. I thought it was kind of funny and found someone to give me 2 $5's and I got my passport back. Thankfully my bag arrived safe and sound at the ...

... departures were marked with a meal at Carnivore, a famous Nairobi institution once voted in the top 50 restaurants in the world, albeit back in the days when they were allowed to serve game meat such as kudu, waterbuck, warthog and the like. The most exotic thing on the menu was ostrich, but the beef, lamb and pork was ...

... people warned me that starting at 6 there are a lot of muggings and I have to travel by taxi.<br><br>Was able to book my safari which was very inexpensive and offered the right amount of time that I wanted to spend in the reserve.<br><br>I then went to see baby elephants get fed as well as a baby rhino who enjoyed charging at the tourists and seeing them run. I then went to a Giraffe foundation and fed some giraffes ...

... as our flight to Kenya was early Monday morning!). In the lounge I snoozed on a chair and we boarded our flight. We arrived in London about 12, midday and it was drizzling. We had 21 hours to kill before our flight tomorrow at 9.05am. We briefly thought about getting an airport hotel room but they started at 89 pounds and we thought nah we'll head into London and look around and return to the airport and sleep on a chair overnight. So off we went on the tube to London and ...

Just a quick note from Kenya! I arrived safely last night. The flights were fine. Not much sleep on the planes, but easier traveling than my first two trips to Africa! I met another volunteer, Sandy, in London and we traveled together to Nairobi. We were met by a driver and there were two other volunteers from the UK that had also been on our flight. We were taken to a nice guest house, it is actually a ...