I’m pleased to announce, now that I’ve added a full blog of my first ever overland Africa trip, that my next one is now fully booked – Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda with Dragoman! I’ll be flying out to Nairobi in the last half of August, staying there for the night […]
Category: 2009 East Africa
Updates from my trip to Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in August / September 2009 where I saw a load of wildlife, visited the Genocide Memorial and got grabbed on the leg by a Mountain Gorilla.
Packing for africa
I’ve taken over my grandmother’s spare bedroom and am packing for my trip to Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. All is going well so far except for the fact I have just managed to break the bottle for my iodine droplets and my fingers are now orange. Oh goody! Two days […]
Africa Day 1 – Travel to Heathrow
I got up fairly early this morning and made final preparations for my holiday before getting a taxi to the train station. The train ride was rather uneventful, as was the tube ride until we started approaching Heathrow. The door I was standing next to wasn’t closed properly and as […]
Africa Day 2 – Nairobi
After arriving at Nairobi I changed some money before taking a taxi to our starting poing, the Kivi Milimani Hotel, which cost around 2000 KSh. When I arrived at the hotel it was still only 730am but there was already somebody else from my tour checking in. She had travelled […]
Africa Day 3 – Nakuru
I got up early today and got ready before going down for breakfast at 630. It was a really nice buffet breakfast with pretty much anything you could want including sausages, weird potato things, fruit, cereal and also a chef that would cook eggs or omelette for you. After getting […]
Africa Day 4 – Gilgil to Eldoret
This morning we got up early and started getting breakfast together when, on time, the baboons arrived. Den decided to scare them away by running at them waving cooking utensils above his head and somehow I got volunteered to join in to stop them stealing food, raiding the bins etc […]
Africa Day 5 – Into Uganda
Another early start today, with breakfast at 530, in an attempt to make it to the border early. It wasn’t far to the border but we expected it to take some time due to all the processes that needed to be undertaken. We made a quick stop at Webuye, near […]
Africa Day 6 – Kampala to Chimps
A fairly leisurely start this morning as we all had a rough nights sleep – there were a few dogs that decided they didn’t like each other in the night and kept fighting near our tents. Den cooked eggs for breakfast which was a nice change although it was quite […]
Africa Day 7 – Chimp Trek
I didn’t have a good nights sleep last night as I hoped so wish I could have had a lay-in today but I was on bag duty this morning so had to get up on time to open up the truck for people who were trekking to see the chimps […]
Africa Day 8 – Queen Elizabeth NP
It was a fairly leisurely start today as we didn’t expect it to be a very long day… we were wrong. The day started with us heading into the nearby town of Fort Portal for supplies. I was on cook duty today so helped Den with shopping in the local […]