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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
After a couple of days in Nairobi, where we pondered where to go first, we made a last minute decision to head north to the lakes of the Rift Valley. Our first destination was Lake Naivasha, where we found the fantastic Fisherman’s Camp directly at the lake shore. We could go on a boat trip …
At Nairobi, there is one famous place for overlanders, called Jungle Junction, where the German owner Chris will help you with every need an overlander could have. We met fellow travellers, which were pondering which route to travel, dealing with the difficulties of entering Ethiopia and the war in Sudan. The weather was not the …
After crossing the border into Kenya, we reached the famous Masai Mara NP. As we had read, that the western part called Mara Triangle has the better roads, useable also during the rainy season, we stopped first at the very expensive Mara West Camp, where we had an incredible view from the escarpment onto the …
Instead of leaving Uganda in the north-east to go to Kenya, we had to travel down to the border with Rwanda, to pick up our drone from the border post. We had spent a couple of days at Lake Bunyonyi again and enjoyed the spectacular scenery, before we started our tour to Kenya with 3 …
Inside Queen Elizabeth NP, we did a boat trip with the local community, which are mostly fishing at Kazinga channel but also provide boats for tourists, cheaper than the national park. We were looking for birds on this trips, as hippos are not so exciting any more, and for elephants it was too early in …
In the west of Uganda lies the Queen Elizabeth NP, named after Queen Elizabeth II after her visit to the park. It stretches along Lake Edward and Lake George, which are connected by the Kazinga Channel, a natural waterway. We had been in this area before, but hadn’t visited the park, instead used the free roads …
