Month: May 2023

A hike @ Mount Kenya NP

We decided to climb Mount Kenya at least a little bit, mostly with our car and then go for a hike, starting at the famous Castle Forest Lodge, where we spent 2 cold and rainy nights. The scenery was so green and lush and the cows and mountain hut made us feel like at home …

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Samburu NP

When we left Marsabit, we did a tour through the national park there, which is an incredible forest surrounded by a very arid landscape just outside the park borders. We came past 2 crater lakes and saw many butterflies, but not much more. Afterwards, we made our way south on a very good road, which …

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From Lake Turkana to Marsabit

In 1887 the Hungarian explorer Count Sámuel Teleki von Szék reached the lake and named it after the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf! Since independence it is named after the people living around it. It is the largest lake in Kenya and the most northern of the Rift Valley lakes. Despite the draught during the last …

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On the way to Lake Turkana

We had decided to try to make our way to Lake Turkana, not sure how the roads and the security situation might be, but asking along the way and finding out on the go. We rounded Lake Baringo in the North and immediately had a gravel road under the tyres. It was not smooth all …

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Lake Baringo

From Iten we had crossed the steep Kario Valley and made our way to Lake Baringo, another lake of the Rift Valley and the most northern after Lake Turkana. It is a fresh water lake like Lake Naivasha and features hippos and crocs, beside of many birds. Like all the Rift Valley lakes, also at …

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Kakamega Rainforest

In Eldoret we had applied for our Visa extension. While waiting for a reply, we drove south to the Kakamega Forest, the last remaining rain forest in Kenya. There is a lovely place called Rondo Retreat, which was once the home of a sawmill owner and is now a retreat run by a Christian organisation. …

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The KEN KNIT Factory

Eldoret is a big city in the West of Kenya, famous for the world famous runners who come from this area. We stopped here to get our new Carnet de Passage stamped – it turned out it was not necessary, we can do that when leaving Kenya, and to extend our Visa, which is still …

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Lake Nakuru National Park

Coming from Lake Elementaita, we went for a day into the Lake Nakuru NP. It extends around the southern end of the lake, with Nakuru town clearly visible at the northern end of the lake. Like all the lakes in the Rift Valley, Lake Nakuru has risen during the last years, not only swallowing its …

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Lake Elementaita

We drove around Lake Naivasha, stopped at Elsamere and continued to the next lake in the row of lakes dotting the Rift Valley in Kenya, Lake Elementaita, famous for its flamingos. On the way we spotted these tiny giraffes. We had never seen so young ones before, aren’t they cute? We stopped at Elsamere, which …

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