Macclesfields Finest - Africa Overland

So this is it, I brought my flight ticket this morning, and tomorrow morning its back to blighty. I left Sandra and Brendan behind and now im in Nairobi, there are quite a few other people in Nairobi preparing to go home,so the campsite has quite a good atmosphere. I am writing […]

The next morning we cooked up a big fried breakfast to get us ready for a days work digging the car out. The guy from Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) came round and took us down to the site in his Land Cruiser. He had already dropped some manpower off beforehand, […]

Brendan had been doing his best to try and get some time off work so that we could all go on a little road trip. Not wanting to travel too far we decided on the nearby Aberdares National Park, the park is a very hilly lush semi-rainforest with lots of […]

I had quite a few fun little adventures during my stay at Ol Pejeta, and dont want to bore everyone with them all, but here is a more interesting one.
One night we decided to have a Barbeque, everyone from the ranch was invited and we cooked pretty much a whole cow […]

I spent one day in Mombasa, wandered around for a bit saw the big tusks that create an arch over the road, saw a big castle and decided it was all fairly pants so caught the night bus up to a place called Nyeri. The journey was something like 14 […]

The next stop along the coast was Lamu, an ancient Swahelian town which is still inhabited. Lamu is on an Island, so it was a bumpy bus ride up the coast and then a short boat journey over to the town itself. Its a touristy place and so hotel touts […]

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After a few days in Nairobi I took the night bus down to Malindi ( about a ten hour journey), where I was hoping to try and find an old University friend (Brendan). Sleeping on the coach wasn’t really possible and eventually we arrived in what someone said was Malindi, […]

Arriving in Kenya was almost an anticlimax after the chaos of Kinshasa. I was granted a visa at the airport with no bribes or strange questions. There was even an official taxi rank to get a lift to the hostel. Before I had one foot outside the terminal building I had my […]