Nairobi Inns - Reviews and Rates

So I arrived in Nairobi and went to the hotel where my tour starts and expected to be able to get a room for the night but it was fully booked. I eventually ended up in this dodgy hotel where there were no other westerners and everyone was looking at me.

Met with tour group and headed to the Masai Mara where we saw every african animal yo...

Monday was the first day that the team went out to meet and minister to the people impacted by the SARAH Network. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are devoted to working with the WAPIS in the town of Banana, which stands for The Wholeness Among People Project. Banana is about an hour's drive from the hotel. Pastor Peter Kamau leads the project as w...

This past week has been interesting and full of set backs. I left Shashamane and decided to just head to Kenya. I got tired of not being able to walk down the street without someone wanting to be my 'friend' which meant they got a free ride for the day and then wanted money or something to 'remember' me by ... like my shoes. We boarded a bus to ...

Kawangware Slum - Outer Nairobi (Pictures to follow next week...my camera batteries croaked...) website to visit: www.rhemahopechildren.org I've been in Kenya a month now and I decided this past week that I needed to volunteer - to get out and into neighborhoods that are far away from the tidy, middle-class neighborhood that I call home right no...

Well we finally made it to Africa. After 2 weeks of having a great time in England catching up with family and friends and their children we are now here at the start of our great African overland adventure. England was great, wet, cold, lot's of wine and booze and children. Randall is officially the Pied Piper (kids love uncle Randall!). Good t...

Every year, as the rains end and the grass dries, thousands of wildebeest leave the Serengheti in Tanzania and head north to the Masai Mara where the grass is plentiful and the rains are still falling. Following the advice of fellow travellers, we decided to make a short addition to the end of our trip and visit the Masai Mara to see the migrati...

Well after the gorillas we expected the rest of our time in africa to be a bit of an anticlimax - but of course it wasnt to be. After a long scenic drive back to Jinja - the source of the Nile , where Lake Victoria the worlds 2nd largest lake spills out. There was only one way to truely experience this end of the Nile and that was to be thrown a...

Have arrived back into Nairobi and today is the day that we pick up the rest of the group and start our journey south. Our trip from the Gorilla's back to Nairobi has been a long one and we didn't actually realise how big Uganda is although it appears small on the map. We found out that a truck that we are spending christmas with was held up in ...

Went on my first safari in Kenya, off the Masai Mara which borders Tanzania. We flew there on a small United Nations twin engine plane operated by a pilot who flies aid into Somalia and Sudan. He told us crazy stories of landing in Mogadishu and being held at gunpoint by bandits trying to steal food, medicine and relief supplies. The first night...