Nairobi Lodges - Reviews and Rates

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 ...

I have been having the most wonderful experience here in the Maasi Mara!! Flying from Nairobi over land I saw impala and zebra, and I was so excited! Isaac, my guide picked me up from the airport and we did a game drive on the way back - and Then this morning we got up early, took a breakfast picnic, and saw just about everything - elephant, gir...

We took the 5h shuttle back to Nairobi - where we are again!!! We seemed to have lots of things to do on our first day back in kenya. Karl went and collected his fleece - which was good since it was cold in kenya and they had kept it safe for 3 months, we booked our flights to Cairo to fly out in a couple of days and we bought an Egypt lonely pl...

So at this point, I'm sure most of you have heard through the news about all that happened in Kenya after the election at the end of December. Before I was on the plane to Nairobi, I had no idea that an election had even occurred...it was the Kenyan sitting next to me who said that turnout had been the highest ever, and that the country was opti...

Arrived in Kenya after an eight hour flight on the lovely British Airways. We made our way to the Visa desk and were escorted to the front of the line by a security guard. (I think it was my sisters blonde hair) We literally passed up many passengers and were quickly on our way to claim our baggage. I was a bit surprised at how primitive it was....

Kenyan Adventures Since I haven't been able to be online very much to upload things, I'll just give everyone an overview of my stay in Kenya, rather than a blow-by-blow description. After spending the night in Nairobi, we went to join everyone else and then headed out for a week of "safari." I put that in quotation marks because we stayed with f...

We held our idea generation workshop in the rural area this Tuesday and Wednesday (July 26th and 27th) and it was, I think all would agree, a success. I should temper that with some detail about our somewhat reduced expectations. Through our meetings last week with Mark and Scott from SCJ corporate, we had come to the realization that a near-ter...

This morning, Ed and I went for a long walk up the road. This is a direction we have never been. It was a lot of fun and we got a lot of stares and "how are you's" from kids. I heard a kid say "how are you," and another kid answered "Fine thank you." So that's when I realized that "fine thank you" is the expected response. I started saying that ...

Dear Mum, Thank you for your lovely advice. I am just starting to learn all 92 of the childrens names...there is a Faith (she's just a baby and even tho most of the kids here haven't progressed to the stage of AIDS...they just have HIV...little Faith has AIDS.) and a Purity, and many Johns and Samuels. I am falling in love with them. Most of the...

Because I want my pins..I'm going back and re-creating the wheel, or at least a few highlights from past trips. Africa is one of my most favorite destinations and I do hope to go back to South Africa in the next 5 years. But to recall... I remember arriving in Nairobi dead tired and feeling drugged by the jet lag. Finally was able to get out and...