Monthly Archives: December 2006

Photos – Kenya

These are a collection of photos taken in Kenya on our around-the-world trip.
Click here to see the full photoset on Flickr.

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Lakes Nakuru, Baringo and Bogoria

Just a quick update about our three day trip to these three lakes about 3-5 hours north of Nairobi.
Lake Nakuru is amazing, a soda lake with lots of flamingoes as well as a large national park where we saw white rhinos (being re-introduced to the park after almost going extinct), waterbucks, ostrich, lots of buffalo. [...]

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Tea plantation

Have just noticed that we forgot to mention the tea plantation visit – I think this was in Limuru  – outside Niarobi. We went with Dan, Pilar, Alex, Tanya and Kim (Hello all!). Where better to visit for big tea drinkers like us than this!
What a relaxing and rather refined experience. It was a bit [...]

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Boxing Day

We haven’t been up to a great deal over the last few days but before we head off up north I thought i’d write a few words whilst enjoying some boxing day sun.
Thanks for the emails, calls and texts wishing us happy christmas. It’s been our first xmas away so it’s been a bit strange [...]

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Safari in the Maasai Mara

We could write so much about this. It was only two full days (three nights) but I could go on and on as we saw so much!
Click here for the photos on Flickr.
Maasai Mara is a nature reserve in Western Kenya, near the border with Tanzania. It’s big – about 1500sq km – and [...]

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Nairobi

We’ve been in Nairobi for a few days now. Not too much to say but wanted to put in our first post from abroad.
Arrival was fascinating – or at least Paul was fascinated by the baggage carousels and the single luggage scanner for an entire 747 full of luggage!
We are staying at Dan and Pilar’s [...]

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