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Marble Arch Hotel Nairobi

Lagos Road, off Tom Mboya Street Nairobi, Kenya

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Road safety ... Kenyan style ...

A travel blog entry by leinsterman

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We land in Nairobi and get through all the usual arrival formalities with surprising ease ... its always a relief when transiting through London Heathrow to see your bags at the other end and know you will have clean underwear for tomorrow, rather than that bloke in Ulan Bataar who is wondering why the undies don't fit him ... especially in this …

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When it rains it pours, or: Get out of my pockets!

A travel blog entry by tobequitefrank

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... literally speeding, at times it was more akin to Dakar than a game drive). Our drive into the camp provided us with some sightings of two new antelope species, plenty of new bird species including Hornbills, Bee Eaters, Quails, Ground Pigeons, Bustards and two species of Guinea Fowl (completing our spotting of all types of guinea fowl in Kenya) but no large game (preposterous to blame my driving). It was with great excitement that, upon coming over a ridge, ...

Nairobi

A travel blog entry by gregd999

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... the administration block, even the toilets got a (very brief) visit. Next it was the nearby house of the caretaker who, along with his wife, also looks after the dormitory for girls who come to the school from a long way away. Well, dormitory may be overstating it - it's more an average size room with beds crammed in. We all then shared a pizza on the way back to the lodge, where we were so tired from the all night flight that we quickly fell asleep and didn't stir till ...

Tase that? That's the taste of karma.

A travel blog entry by tobequitefrank

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... able to approach one. We laughed at the poor donkey who copped a striped hoof to the chin for his romantic advances and continued down the road. We entered a swampy, water-logged track with large pools of water that rose to the hull (rather than bottom) of the car. One particular section that was deep and thick with mud was sure to get us bogged - Kevin, ignoring our protestations (thus volunteering for the inevitable pushing duty), gunned it and - despite a large amount of ...

Stuck in the slow lane

A travel blog entry by tobequitefrank

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Collected from the hostel by Kevin once again, we had a brief stop at the ATM before heading across town to the National Museum of Kenya. We began with the reptile park and became well versed in the many different species of reptiles inhabiting the countryside. I was very interested to see the chameleons crawling on the leaves of a shared enclosure in the middle of the building - I was less enthused after discovering they were left to roam free to serve as lunch ...

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