Hotel Embassy Kenya

... Hotel, a pleasant hotel in the city center but with lush gardens all around. As it is across the street from the Israeli embassy, security all around is very tight. I called the Gichuru family, old friends of ours from when I covered Kenya for UCG, and ...

... as well as 3 different security drive arounds (concrete pillars so you have to slow way down) - i found out later the Israeli Embassy was just across the street. The game drive lasted about 4 hours and amazingly, i saw more animals (except elephants ...

... , visas are quite easy to obtain for Kenya in every location except the one I was heading to--Moyale. I checked with the Kenyan embassy in Addis about obtaining a visa and they told me to wait four days. Four days! As I wrote earlier, the trip ...

... the road.  It was actually navigable, and intended to slow traffic that might try to bring explosives to the Israeli embassy which is on this street.  We passed the Fairview, a hotel frequented by Americans.  The Angilican Guest house is a ...

... going), and I hadn't seen him in 17 years!!! He was also there to visit Kevin from his 'adjudicating' work in the US embassy in Poland.  We were whisked off to a restaurant by Kevin's driver Benjamin while we waited to 'pick' Kevin from the embassy ...

... was smelly bore water) and relaxed. Friday 31st July. Today we spent the day arranging a visa for India and had 2 trips to the embassy downtown and by 4 pm had our visas. My glasses needed repair so that was done and some banking. The rest of the day was ...

... the guilty party in a situation is the one who caused the physical person to commit the crime. According to Zouga, the US Embassy being bombed in Nairobi is America's fault and the death of those Kenyans have caused the nation to look at America as ...

... in the past few days.  I had a really fun and jam-packed 4th of July.  We were invited to a celebration with American Embassy employees in Kenya and that was really fun.  There was a bouncy castle, red white and blue balloons, hot dogs and hamburgers, ...

... the Fairview Hotel, which was an adventure in itself getting there.  Due to its location across the road from the Israeli Embassy, we were required to go through an armed road block.... these army boys had serious guns and ammunition on display. ...

... was holding a big sign with Jim’s name on it.  He drove us by taxi to the Fairview Hotel, past the prison headquarters and the Israeli embassy with armed guards, which was about a 15 minute drive at this time of night (10pm).  Brad ...

... by some guy Il have to call Rafael as I dont remember his name. Saw the ex-Pres' masoleum, the former site of the US embassy and then took a recommendation from Raf on a lunch spot. He was harmless enough but after buying him a coke then tried his luck ...

... of the typical corporate accounts although it does cater to the odd consultant, air worker and foreign embassy staff.  Extremely friendly people at the hotel which is very efficiently run.  It’s apparently been around since the ...

... regaining confidence and yelling "muzungu!" ("whitey!") at me. it's pretty cute. 2 nights ago i stayed at a hotel right next to the former american embassy that was attacked by a suicide bomber in 1998. 219 people died and many more were permanently ...

... Mumbai and where we could hide from the rains (due to floods in Tanzania and Uganda). Tuesday we put our passports into Indian Embassy for our visas (luckily we did have the yellow fever vaccination before we left the UK) and we bought our tickets to ...

... to take the visas again. We had to pay $75 again (although we paid $75 when we first took the visas from the Kenyan embassy in US) and fill the application forms again. We were very unhappy at this (paying the fees and taking the visas again) because we ...

... ever seen in a museum.  It was 50 minutes long and it had a lot of interesting info about the bombing.  I guess the Embassy didn't even crumble but a building next to it was the one that fell but all the windows were blown out of it ...

... of the tour group not even here yet, in a country that seemed to be poised to explode. I got the phone number for the embassy, amassed enough cash to buy myself out of most situations, and set up a plan for getting to the airport if things deteriorated ...

... bank statements and other things which we didn't have…So we decided to give up.One lesson - you shouldn't go to an embassy without enquiring what exactly we need to apply for a visa!Daniel needs a Chinese visa for Trans-siberian visa but we will ...

... drive big SUVs, not to drive at night, not to drive in unfamiliar areas, and above all, (and this comes right from the US Embassy in Nairobi) if you are carjacked , get out of the car immediately, don't take anything with you.  The three people in ...

... one attack. Addis was a nice enough city, colourful and mostly modern but with its fair share of large stately buildings (The British Embassy has its own golf course) and run-down shanty-town areas, but we stayed only one night as we had a deadline to ...