It seems even the best of things must evenually come to an end… Sadly the end of our journey looms; we’ll be leaving Mombasa soon and heading back to Aus to resume “regular” life. This, therefore, will be our final blog entry…. for a little while anyway – […]
Diani Beach’s monkey conservation trust In an attempt to recover from yesterday’s Christmas excesses we decided to go from a long walk along the beach today. On the way we came across the Diani Beach Colobus & Monkey Conservation Trust (www.colobusconservation.org) and ducked in for a visit to see […]
Krismasi Njema! Swahili Christmas salutations blog fans! Hope you all had a wonderful day, filled with the things that bring you the most joy. We had a great day that included lots of fun and laughter with family and friends as well as a healthy dose of sun, […]
Flying high across the plains of Africa After our final day’s game drive yesterday we left Tarangire National Park this morning and headed to Arusha Airport where we caught a small charter flight to Mombasa, Kenya. The flight took us above the clouds and directly past the main […]
Sunrise over Mt Kilimanjaro Sunrise this morning was just spectacular, and the all-day game drive we went on afterwards even better. We spent more than 8 hours driving through the Amboseli National Park in “safari mode”, “hunting” animals with the binoculars and “shooting” them with our camera. Elephants, […]
Farewell Lake Nakuru, hello Amboseli National Park! We left Lake Nakuru National Park early this morning and drove all the way across Kenya, through Nairobi, to Amboseli National Park. Famous for its populations of elephants, Amboseli is the second most visited national park in Kenya (aftr Maasai Mara) […]
Africa’s most endangered large mammal We awoke this morning to a fresh pot of Kenyan coffee (delivered to our tent by a smiling waiter – how cool is that?!), a beautiful sunrise and a RHINO AT OUR BACK FENCE! We didn’t actually see any rhino yesterday (much to our […]
