Parkside Hotel Nairobi
Monrovia Street Nairobi, Kenya
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Nairobi to Mombasa.
Where to start? No freaking idea. If you read no further just know that despite the fact that I have done essentially nothing important or personally groundbreaking since I've been here, it has been an incredible experience thus far. I can probably promise much more exciting stories later when I get to St. Joseph's in Migori (which I will travel to …
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Where in the world have we gone?
... them checked by a mechanic whilst we gobbled some lunch and played Monopoly on the phone. A lot longer than an hour later he showed up and we jumped back on the road (the brakes showed no improvement, though we hadn't the heart to tell him). We continued winding our way through the land until finally arriving very late in the afternoon to collect Francis from his university. After catching up and helping him cart his stuff to the car (by ...
First stage in Nairobi
... Charlotte's new booster seat tho!
We arrived at Usha's before Niru, and within minutes both girls were running happily up and down the corridor into the bedroom and back again as if they had lived here all their lives! We managed to get the girls to sleep about midnight Kenya time (9pm UK) then Niru and I had a few beers and probably the only quiet evening chat we will get for a while1
Niru did the next morning when Maya woke at 9 while Charlotte and ...
Nairobi and Masai Mara: A muddy finish
... a great time. We said our goodbyes to most of the group that night.
We then had a free day in Nairobi before going on a three day stint into a Kenyan park called the Masai Mara. Along with Nick, Martin and Nikki (from our ATC tour) we went to the David Sheldrick animal orphanage. They would take in baby elephants whose mother had died. Elephants are very dependent on their mother's milk until almost 3 years of age. They are very likely ...
Fashionably EARLY
... comes by and asks for our Yellow Fever Certificates… Yea! So glad that we broke down and got the vaccine. There were others on our trip that made it through without having to show their certificate but another couple on our trip didn’t have theirs and they were pulled back to an office and given the vaccine at the Kenyan Airport. They said they would have gladly paid the 150 apiece to not have been stressed out that way. It ended up being a ...



