Week 1: 1 - 7 October 2006: Kenya
We arrived in Kenya excited and apprehensive. Our first stop, The Heron Hotel in Nairobi was much better that expected, with really nice rooms, even by European Standards, good food and drinks.
We met our tour group which included amongst others a guy Suz went to primary school with and also guide and truck driver (Liv & Al). We started off with 24 people on tour.
Our first stop was David Sheldrick's Animal Orphanage, where we watched (& touched)babyElephants and Rhinos being bottle fed and bathed.
We left Nairobi and headed to Elsamere, home of 'Born Free' writer Joy Adamson.
We stayed 2 nights at Lake Naivasha where Hippos roamed the campground at night. We took a boat trip to a national park where we walked to Green Crater Lake, home to thousands of Pink Flamingos. The walk there took us through fields of Giraffe's, Zebra's and Impala's. We ended the day by watching Fish Eagles dive and catch fish hurled into the water.
We then headed to the Masi Mara, on some of the worst roads ever, negotiating a tire blowout and a jack-knifed truck taking up the whole road.
The Mara was quite amazing, we saw our first pride of Lions and the migrating Wildebeast.
After that we headed to Lake Nakuru which had a huge Soda Lake which stunk of Flamingos and coated the soles of your shoes, and in Brad's case even swallowed them! There we also had our first close-up encounter with a White Rhino.
At the end of the first week everyone felt like the tour had been going for much longer as we had done and seen so much.
Click on the following photo for more week 1 photos
We met our tour group which included amongst others a guy Suz went to primary school with and also guide and truck driver (Liv & Al). We started off with 24 people on tour.
Our first stop was David Sheldrick's Animal Orphanage, where we watched (& touched)babyElephants and Rhinos being bottle fed and bathed.
We left Nairobi and headed to Elsamere, home of 'Born Free' writer Joy Adamson.
We stayed 2 nights at Lake Naivasha where Hippos roamed the campground at night. We took a boat trip to a national park where we walked to Green Crater Lake, home to thousands of Pink Flamingos. The walk there took us through fields of Giraffe's, Zebra's and Impala's. We ended the day by watching Fish Eagles dive and catch fish hurled into the water.
We then headed to the Masi Mara, on some of the worst roads ever, negotiating a tire blowout and a jack-knifed truck taking up the whole road.
The Mara was quite amazing, we saw our first pride of Lions and the migrating Wildebeast.
After that we headed to Lake Nakuru which had a huge Soda Lake which stunk of Flamingos and coated the soles of your shoes, and in Brad's case even swallowed them! There we also had our first close-up encounter with a White Rhino.
At the end of the first week everyone felt like the tour had been going for much longer as we had done and seen so much.
Click on the following photo for more week 1 photos
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