Parklands Shade Hotel Nairobi

I had a wonderful day today, in Kibera, the largest slum in Africa. This is the part of town, the Juakali Drummers are from, and one of my colleagues was also born and brought up here. He was going to visit friends and family - so I asked to tag along and take a look.

We drove through the mud tracks, filled with trash and loads of bumps a...

The future of Masai Mara game reserve and the
continuous existence of the abundant game inside it is directly
dependent on the Masai communities living around it. The pastoralist
Masai community keep herds of cattle, sheep and goats as a pride of
wealth and their main source of daily livelihood. They also keep
donkeys as beast...

Jambo everyone!

Sadly, Den and I are starting to pack up and leave Lenana for our next adventure: our Oasis overland tour down to Cape Town. Although we are majorly excited for our 2 month safari, we are sad to leave this place we have called home for the past month. We have, therefore, been trying to spend as much time as possible up at ...

Hi all!!

Life in Kenya is pretty boring lately, and I do not have much to report! Yesterday I definately managed to develop A.D.D. Hands down I have never been that bored before in my entire life! Here is how my A.D.D came on...

We were supposed to do "community mapping" with Kilonzi and a local college group today in a neighbou...

Hello beautiful people!

Well I've been having an eventful time here in Nairobi and I think its high time I filled anyone in whose interested!

There has been some up and downs, mainly to do with my volunteer work, but now I'm over halfway everything has come good!

I was first put in a small hospital outside one of the sl...

Hi all, Sarah and I are very slack, we know, and you are probably wondering what the hell has been happening to us!! So, here's a quick updat and an outline of our plans from here on in. Sorry, cant download any photos as the East Africa internet is really rather ******!! For the last month we have been travelling up the East Coast of Africa on ...

Jambo is Swahilli for “hello”.

We made it to Nairobi on time and better still, so did our luggage. We arrived on Saturday at 7 PM Nairobi time (Kenya is actually 9 hours ahead of Edmonton, not 10, so it was 10 AM Edmonton time when we arrived). Weather was a comfortable 20 C (68 F) on arrival. Even though Nairobi is just ab...

Destination 371

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Arrived far apart of my planed route at Nairobi, I take the chance to get in touch with many other overlander travelers at legendary Jungle Junction (S 01 17,325 / E 036 45,635 - jungle_junction_nairobi@yahoo.com), a traveler's oasis in the city.
According to my updates I will enter my last stage of my ...

Normalmente odio levantarme temprano por la maņana pero hoy era diferente... estaba la primera persona despierta. Me encanta viajar... pienso que ver el paisaje cambiando es algo de maravilla... Mis amigas y yo (Karen - tenemos el mismo nombre, Laura, Wangeci y Ciiku pasamos la noche en la casa de Karen) Karen vive en Kasarani que esta situada p...

It is not a good idea to skip a day of writing! We do so much in one day that it becomes overwhelming to write about two!

First thing, Friday
night I slept well although I was up for about an hour or so with an
upset stomach - nothing too bad, thankfully. Unfortunately both Will
and Dad had difficulty sleeping partially due to je...