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Parklands Shade Hotel Nairobi

Ojijo Road Nairobi, Kenya

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Where in the world have we gone?

A travel blog entry by tobequitefrank

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... number of intensely different environments: flat plains with untidy slum buildings and clustered stone homes on the side of steep hills; irrigated rice fields on the stretching flat lands and banana and tea plantations up in the mountains; dry, dusty towns filled with donkeys and derelict cars, and walled plots of agricultural land growing a multitude of crops. With the brakes howling and screaming we stopped off in a small town so Kevin ...

Hello Mr. President?

A travel blog entry by tobequitefrank

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... a procession of cars that were multiples bigger than our earlier estimates. The band started booming out the national anthem (we had no realised everyone was standing still until politely asked to do the same) and the cars passed through. Eagerly waiting a shot of the President, at the end of the anthem there was a big sigh from the crowd... and then everyone started leaving. We were perplexed - the whole setup had a definitive climax, but nobody actually made a move up the red ...

First stage in Nairobi

A travel blog entry by jani_family

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... way - one with a lorry slowly pulling across the fast lane, causing us to swerve into the slow lane, and another with a branch lying in the middle of the 3 lane highway which we swerved around just in time. Thereis very little street lighting in Kenya so it's not easy to spor hazards til they are upon you. I am learning to switch off a littel of my worry head as we made the decision to come here, and we can't always be as safety conscious as in the UK. I was very ...

Nairobi and Masai Mara: A muddy finish

A travel blog entry by nathananddarja

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(sorry once again for taking so long for this final entry...)

The camp on the outskirts of Nairobi was the end of our 42-day camping trip through Africa. It seems to be a base for ATC trucks that are ending or beginning their treks as there were about 10 trucks at one point. In the evening after we arrived we had dinner with our group for the last time. After dinner the bar at the camp had a lively dance floor intermixed with karaoke and ...

Fashionably EARLY

A travel blog entry by coryandlaura

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We disembark the plane and find that we have paperwork to fill out. Always prepared for travel I get the pen that I placed in easy access and start to fill out the paperwork. The pen makes two strokes and is totally out of ink. There are no pens provided and Cory and I sit there wondering what to do. One of our fellow travelers is kind enough to give us their pen when they are done. In the mean time as we have been trying to fill out our paperwork the ...

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