12/12/20 was our final day in Africa and we decided to do something slightly controversial. I’ve been working with the homeless in Seattle, and I wanted to better understand how things worked in Kenya. As…
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Africa trip – Day 18: Hemingways Watamu, Nairobi
12/19/2024 was the last day with the safari group. We had a flight from Malindi to Nairobi in the late afternoon, and everybody else took a connecting flight from there back home. But we decided…
Africa trip – Day 17: Hemingways Watamu, Oda (a small village)
I woke up early again on 12/18/2024 to attempt to take a great sunrise picture. It was cloudy again, and this was the best I could do shortly after sunrise: Thirty minutes later, I was…
Africa trip – Day 16: Hemingways Watamu
12/17/2024 was entirely a free day – there were no group activities scheduled at all (although we did sit with others in the group if we happened to run into them when we ate meals)….
Africa trip – Day 15: Elephant Orphanage, Hemingways Watamu
12/16/2024 was a bitter-sweet day. It started with a visit to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant and Rhino Orphanage, which is within Nairobi National Park. Elephants only eat their mother’s milk for the first two…
Africa trip – Day 14: Back in Nairobi
12/15/2024 was probably the least exciting day of the trip. We left Maasai Mara and drove back to Nairobi. We got to four wheel the same river and pay the same kid to move his…
Africa trip – Day 13: Maasai Mara National Reserve (the day of the cats)
Riding in hot air balloon was never on my bucket list, but when offered the opportunity to do a sunrise hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti, how can you turn it down? That is…
Africa trip – Day 12: Lake Naivasha, Maasai Mara National Reserve
We started the day of 12/13/2024 by checking out of the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort and driving to our boat tour. Here are some parting pictures that I took before leaving the resort: We loaded…
Africa trip – Day 11: Lake Naivasha, Lake Elementaita
On 12/12/2024 our schedule got switched around. We were supposed to visit Lake Elementaita, do a boat ride on Lake Naivasha, and have the option to visit Hell’s Canyon (using the resorts drivers if we…
Africa trip – Day 10: Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Lake Naivasha
On 12/11/2024 we checkout out of the Sweetwaters Serena Camp in Ol Pejeta and drove to Lake Naivasha. The drive was long and boring, and the first hour was entirely on unpaved roads. The drive…