Outspan Aberdare National Park

... they thought of once as) friends. It is not easy or fair to blame a particular tribe more than another, as many are at fault. Some acts of bloodshed were unprovoked. Some were performed in fear of violence; some in retaliation. Regardless, most blame the politicians for inciting the violence, and encouraging a tribal backlash. Many even believe that the murders and displacements were planned a year before the election by members of the ...

... gift shop which was packed to the rafters with animals, masks, bowls and lots of other bits and bobs all carved from wood or soap stone. We had a cursory look but managed to escape with our wallets fully intact unlike another couple who (we discovered a few days later) were stung over a giraffe….oh the perils of being a tourist!

Moving on from there our journey continued and we made it to Outspan at about 1.30pm. We were told to take from our bags ...

... As the water levels have reduced, concentrations of sediment have increased massively, reducing the ability of fish eagles to hunt and damaging the lake population. At some points our boat got stuck because the sediment has made the lake so shallow!

Some years back a British ex-pat decided to introduce carp to the lake. The impact on the local fishing industry has been severe as the carp have succesfully competed with the local tilapia. It has been worse still for the fish ...

... of papyrus and he sold the guide a few fish to attract the fish eagles. The eagles have the most amazing eyesight - spotting a floating fish from hundreds of metres and swooping majestically to pluck it from the water. My camera died while we were on the lake so I got no photos which was a real shame.

On Wednesday I went to Hell's Gate National Park on a bike with a local guide called Eddie. It is the only park in Kenya that you can cycle around unguided ...

... the bar till dinner time and had a light meal before heading back to our room with the hotel guard. Right across our room there was a hippo grazing in the garden. It was a real sight. The others were scared to death but I really was fascinated with the size of the beast. We went to sleep by 2100. ( 235km , 5 hours drive )

... to be ready. 1 hour from Nairobi, at the beginning of the rift valley, we first stopped by lake Naivasha for 1 night. Amazing! Took a boat on the lake and admired pelicans and flamingos take off and land, eat, etc. And our guide took us to a peninsula where we got to walk for 30 min amongst zebras and antilopes, and met a giraffe!!

Je suis de retour à Nairobi après 16 heures de train, dans des conditions un peu rude, mais ce qui en fait le charme, après coup !! Ce fut une belle expérience humaine que de partager le trajet difficile de ces gens, ces enfants, bien plus agréable que de se prélasser en première ou en seconde ! Pour ce train, on parle de couverts en argent dans les deux premières classes mais la troisième vaut son pesant d'expérience ! Nous avons été arrêté en ...

it took some serious effort for us to actually get out to Naivasha. Firstly, the Matatu wud only go when it was full which toook a ****ing year.. so it drovew round trying to find passengers and we stopped in the matatu stand where all the pissheads were. We had some fun wi8th them before they finally left us alone. eventually the thing filled up, and then some ...

... worrying. but hey, it'll b fun.. apart from that, nothing new has happened.. omnly got a couple of weeks left now which is kinda sucky, but im looking forward to coming home! yesterdsay we went to this school called Filadelphia (spelling lol) and heard about some of the stories of the kids there. some shocking stuff i'll tell you. but its a good sign of how the ...