Monthly Archives: December 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
As we had just left Amboseli we were advised to cross the border at a smaller border called Tarakea just outside Oloitokitok (no, I didn’t make that name up!) rather than going back up to Namanga, which is the usual crossing. This was probably the easiest border crossing so far – hardly even worth mentioning! […]
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Here are some other blogs from our fellow travelers that we met back in Aswan, Egypt. Here you can read Hannah and Diarmaid’s excellent blog post of their experiences in Aswan. It’s true, hilarious, sad, upsetting and honest all in one. Rick had a good daily blog going on – he has actually just recently […]
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
As we drive down the plains and it turns into a more swampy area, I see them. Just little dots in the distance at first, but I soon reliase they’re not so little. I have never in my life seen so many elephants at the same time, I don’t even bother trying to count them. […]
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
From Kentrout we decided to drive back about 25 km to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Brian’s great uncle Clive went there some years ago to help them with their conservation programs. We thought it could be worth spending another night in the region and do our first game drive. But as we came in and asked […]
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The road between Moyale at the border and just south of Marsabit in northern Kenya is known as the worst road in Africa. It used to be both because of the conditions of the road and the fact that there were road bandits and attacks happening, but thesedays the security is much better and we […]
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For those of you observant enough to know that we are currently in Tanzania and not in Uganda as was our planned route, here’s a short briefing! We were in Nairobi and were discussing when to move on towards Uganda. That’s when we heard about the latest ebola outbreak – apparently air born now – […]
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