Vast savannas peppered with immense herds of wildlife, snow-capped equatorial mountains, traditional peoples who bring soul and color to the earth – welcome to Kenya.
Today, it was again a bit difficult to find a safari car, but we made a deal with a local guide for 150 USD, including a very high car entrance fee (5,000 KES) for a full-day trip to Ol Pejeta Conservancy (🎟️110 USD). It is supposed to be a 90,000-acre non-profit wildlife conservancy...
We left Nyeri in the late afternoon and, after a short drive, arrived in Nanyuki, a town located just 6 kilometres north of the Equator at 1947 meters above sea level. It has a lovely setting, with Mount Kenya as a backdrop and rivers such as the Burguret and the Ewaso Nyiro. There are...
The evening before the visit, we did our research and spent two hours finding a reliable local tour operator in Nyeri. After some negotiation, we agreed on a safari van for 120 USD for a day in Aberdare National Park (🎟️70 USD). It is a diverse highland park in Kenya known for its...
Today we arrived in Nyeri in the late afternoon, a town located in Kenya’s Central Highlands, between the Aberdare Range and Mount Kenya. Its geography features rolling hills, fertile valleys, and two distinct ecosystems: the Aberdare National Park and Mount Kenya forests. The area...
On our way to Aberdare NP, after a one-and-a-half-hour drive from Nairobi, we made a lunch stop at the Blue Post Hotel, just off the A2 near Thika. Hotel was built in 1908 by Captain Ward and originally served as a post office for farmers. It has a long colonial history, is famously...
From Arusha, we drove on a good tarmac to the Namanga border on our way to Nairobi. It was again a pretty easy and friendly border. After arriving on the Kenyan side, we went to the building on the right side, where we obtained a Tanzanian exit stamp in our passports, and then proceeded...
We left Maasai Mara in the morning, but we couldn’t manage to arrive at the border before 6 PM. We recalled that on our previous visit, we couldn’t find suitable overnight parking on this stretch of the road. But just around sunset, we drove through Sare and found an old Texas...
Luckily, we arrived at Sekenani Gate just on time to see and experience the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara National Reserve. It is an iconic wildlife event, featuring over a million wildebeest, zebras, and other herbivores migrating in a circular route between the Serengeti National...
We spent 12 days in Nairobi fixing our truck. The original plan was to change the engine oil, as we had already done everything before the last break. However, as usual, we found many other things that stopped working or broke on their own. We repaired the window nets, the leaking fuel...
After refilling our water tank and refueling diesel at Total (3179 TZS / liter) in Mwanza, it took us five hours to travel on a good tarmac road to reach the Isibania Border situated in Northern Tanzania. It is the usual crossing point between the Masai Mara National Park and the...