Kenya

Wildlife Works

We visited the “Wildlife Works” office and learned about all their projects to make it possible that wildlife and local communities coexist. The area around Rukinga Conservancy is a critical wildlife corridor between the two halves of Kenya’s largest national park: Tsavo East and Tsavo West.  At their “green house”, they are growing local trees …

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Tiwi Beach

We spent a long time at Tiwi Beach at Twiga Lodge, a nice campsite directly at the beach under palm trees, while we waited for our shipment to Oman. Of course we also did some excursions. Amos organised for us to go dolphin spotting at the Kisite Mpunguti Marine NP. A Minibus took us to …

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Kenya – a summary

Some infos from Kenya for our fellow travellers: Border:we came from Tanzania, taking the border close to Lake Victoria, which was a one-stop border and everything was easy. They even accepted our East Africa Visa, which normally doesn’t allow you to leave the three countries (Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya).After 6 weeks in Kenya, we left …

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Kenyan coast

From Voi to the famous Twiga Lodge at the southern coast of Kenya, the road would lead through busy Mombasa. Driving trough this big city was something we wanted to avoid, so we checked our maps and found a route, taking us from Samburu to Kinango and Kwale and finally to the coast. On all …

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Tsavo West

From Amboseli it is a short drive to the gate of the next park: Tsavo West. We were greated by giraffes and soon after the gate reached the Shetani lava stream. Only 200 years old, the stream down the volcano is still clearly visible. Another highlight were the Mzima springs, where the water emerges from …

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Amboseli National Park

Amboseli NP, famous for its view of Mount Kilimanjaro, in addition to the wildlife, didn’t disappoint. The famous mountain made its appearance and we saw a lot of animals during our visit to the park. We stayed at Kimana Camp just outside the park, to make the most of 24 hours @ Amboseli. We did …

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