Nairobi International Youth Hostel

My plan was very clear. Gotta check some local tour operators in town. Get my Yellow fever shot. See the sights. And find an alternate place to stay. We took the side street to the main road and hopped on the CitiHoppa. 30 shillings to town.. not bad. Anne told me how Zipporah had cornered her and told her she couldnt just go around making friends with anybody she bloody well felt like. This is business, warned Zipporah menacingly. And you're ruining it. Wow! Pretty cut-throat. I had never mo...

Ok, so arriving in Nairobi: My luggage was lost, and currently I have no clothes, and my ride was missing and was bombarded by several "taxi drivers" who insisted not for me to go with the others because they were trying to rob me. I felt the adrenaline pumping and the anxiety rising. Some guy in a suit handed me a cell phone, and insisted he was from Backpackers, the hostel I was staying at. On the other line, was Georgina, the girl who was supposed to pick me up. And normally, i wouldn't ha...

Day the Twenty-second - in which we mostly sleep and nothing of interest happens. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Got a taxi to the Nairobi Youth Hostel. Pretty pricey, especially as there was no hot water. Nairobi is overcast and chilly. Cold shower - brrrr! At least we feel clean now. Heeding warnings about Nairobi [or Nairobbery] we walked into town with nothing on us except what we needed to change money. It seems safe enough to me. Sure at night it's probably not, but during the day everyone around seems...

I did a five days tour of Mount Kenya just about two days before x-mass.I left Nairobi for Nanyuki to start of my adventure trip,on an early and beautiful day sunny and clear sky. I was in one of Kenya's travel mini bus refereed to us the Matt 'MATATU' which i boarded from the Accra street in down town Nairobi at the junction of River road and Accra road ,it was at around 8:00 in the morning and streets were busy so does the bus stop as lots of people were traveling up country to cerebrate x-...

Nairobi Part 2.

Having been to Kericho and Mombasa, I returned to Nairobi for one final night before leaving for Johannesburg. This list is short and sweet as I was only there for one action packed day and night!

In no particular order…

Best Bits:

- Leaving trip to Carnivore restaurant and making sure I got every meat available including crocodile and ostrich!
- Getting my hair done with five colours in my hair despite being told it couldn't be done!
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Thursday, November 11, 2004 I have two days left here in Nairobi and then I will be leaving to Kajiado, which is two hours out of Nairobi to begin my research project. I am doing my research at the African Inland Church Girls' Primary School in Kajiado. I will be living in the rescue hostel with the runaway girls.. its going to be crazy, exciting, ackward and amazing all at the same time. I am going to have my own room in the hostel but its right in the center of the girls' cubicals. There ar...