Safari Adventures....
Here's the long awaited Safari Entry.
Day 1 8am
So after partying all weekend had to wake up bright and early on a sunday morning to head over to the Safari Company and meet our driver!
Paid for the Safari and got our sleeping bags and met Sammy our driver. There were some changes to the intinerary so we headed to Nakuru first. The truck we were in was a Land Cruiser with 2 roof panels that popped open all the way... now this is what I call a Sunroof!! these roads really suck... I have no idea how people do this on a regular basis. In the cruiser was Naomi, Marni and myself... luckily we hadn't picked anybody up yet. The Hotel in Nakuru looked a little shady, weird shower that was right next to the toilet... not too sure about this roughing it thing that we are doing... The bed was uncomfortable and really crappy... oh well ate lunch there and left with a driver named Joshua in a Suzuki Sidekick type car for a game drive in Nakuru national park. Our Land Cruiser went in for repairs.
We drove around the national park, got to see White Rhinos, Flamingoes, Zebra's Gazelles and a whole bunch of other animals...pretty cool stuff. There was lots of dust and so my allergies decided to kick in. lake Nakuru is very pretty... large flat land with trees and then this massive lake filled with flamingoes... we went up to a cliff that serves as a lookout point over the lake...it was quite breathtaking. too lots of pictures...including one that amazed me... here we were in the middle of nowhere and I had cell phone reception... go figure...
Back to the hotel for dinner and a really bad shower..
Day 2
Woke up had breakfast and we were off in the Land Cruiser for some more driving... stopped at a junction point (one of the safari companies transfer points I guess) and picked up Tapan and Rajiv from India, Teddy from Germany, and Martina from Switzerland. The truck was just paked with people... so much for having it all to ourselves :(
more driving on the crappy roads (I mean so bad that at points it was better to drive on the grass/dirt potholes than to attempt the ones on the road...10-15kph max) we finally got to the Masai Mara park and headed over to the Masai Village to see how they live and meet them. REally cool People but the whole experience was very touristy. went on a game drive. We saw lots of nice animals. We then headed over to the campsite... this was entertaining... at least all the tents were already up and had beds in them. A long drop for a bathroom and the showers were outdoor and encased in concrete and no lights...eeewww.... Luckily I got my own tent to sleep in, put up the mosquito net and popped my bags on the other bed. Keeping an open mind.. but boy was this low end... poor Feisal. We ate dinner and made some friends with a group from France, then went to bed and passed out cold...
Day 3 5:30am
Woke up bright and early for a game drive, but before that had a COLD shower in the dark and used the really useless toilet (have they heard of Seats???). Had to stand guard over the showers as the girls had theirs, guess some idiots had tried to get into their tents that morning so they were a little freaked out. Of course THEY get hot water.. hmph... We ate breakfast and took off.. We got to see Lions and Giraffes and Elephants. Gazelles, headed over to the Tanzania and Kenya Border, stopped at this really nice lodge for a bathroom break... Yay Seats!!! saw monkeys and these little cute baby ones too...
Headed off for a picnic lunch at a river wher hippos like to bathe.. Damn them things are HUGE! and Scary... but they make this eh eh eh sound that's entertaining...lol.. The food for a packed lunch was not bad, there was this most excellent Fruit Salad...mmm...'nanas
Went into the park for another Game drive... we saw a black rhino in the bushes near a small pond and proceeded to try and get a better look...guess the Rhino didn't like that too much, it came out of the bushes and growled at us and stomped its feet... a little scary seeing as the thing could very easily kill all of us and overturn the truck we were in... we were lucky... it gave us the "look of death" and then turned around and scampered off into the vast plains of the African savannah. The great thing was that there are very few Black Rhino's in the park... the driver we were with hadn't seen one for 6 months...so we were very, very fortunate to get to see one. We drove around some more, saw more animals and then headed back to "The Camp".
Once back at the camp, some of us headed off on a Masai Walk... this was up to the top of a hillside just in time to witness a spectacular sunset. Well worth the pain... my calves...oweee....Marni and Naomi had no problems at all... me an the other guy...pathetic... I was out of breath in all of umm... say 15 seconds of trekking... :( but boy was the sunset awesome..hopefully the pictures will be up at some point and all of yalls can enjoy. We headed back down and attempted to corrupt (ok I did) and teach him how to tell tourist to watch out for little piles of dung that were on the ground... the girls made reasonable suggestions.. "Watch out for the POOP"..."Look out for the SHIT" ha ha... poor guy... it was fun tho... got back to the campsite and had a hot shower, ate dinner and moved my bags into the girls' room.... I got to sleep with 2 cute women... that was my highlight... of course we were all in different beds and seperated by this silky white material called a MOSQUITO NET!! oh well... :) I barely slept all night... the net wasn't up properly so it was on my head for most of the night. damn thing...
Day 4 5:30am
Woke up bright and early again... headed off for yet another game drive.. saw 2 lions getting it on... quite entertaining... the female gets "seduced" by the male.. which involves him growling and biting her... then he does his thing.. she looks like she couldn't care less... 30 seconds later, he goes into his corner, she stays where she is and they take a nap... hmm... sounds like married life to me... LOL got video of it... can't wait to show you! we left the park..said bye bye to the Masai Mara National Park and headed to the junction point....
We stopped for lunch in Naroc.. .good food, went across the street for some Mango juice.. they make this bottle mango juice called Picana...mmm.mmmm.. good... changed people at the junction and headed off for our last nite... in Naivasha..
Drive was worse than Nakuru... roads really really sucked... I think we would have gotten there faster if we walked! got to Camp Crayfish and I saw tents... thought I might have to camp again.. which would probably involve me slitting my wrists.. or taking a bath in hippo infested waters... anything but camping again :( thank god it had rooms as well. shared shower and toilets (with seats) (the toilet had seats...not the showers...) had a hot water shower (YAY) we went for a walk by the water... heard a hippo.. eh eh eh. Didn't think it was a stupid thing to do at the time, but we went through an electrified fence (you could just detach the "wire" from the hook on the wooden post) walked by the water... came back... freaked the heck out of Marni as I pretended to be "shocked" by the line as I put it back...LOL..Priceless... eh eh eh.... but a few weeks later at another camp, some woman got killed by a Hippo that charged her, threw her into the air and then stomped on her... scary stuff. Saw another beautiful sunset and headed off for Dinner. This menu actually let you choose what you wanted to eat (YAY) then bedtime....
Day 5
Feeling kinda tired and drained in the morning... ate brekky and headed over to Hells Gate National Park. I would have liked to mountain bike into the park... but by the time I remembered, we had already passed the rental shop... Saw more aminals on the way in.. some of the odd names that I was calling them:
Raffi's
LelePhANTS
Zebebra's
Lyons
...Yes I was dropped on my head as a child....and yes, they are called aminals... just like Skizzors and Tynelol.
This place is gorgeous... we headed to the ranger station and then proceeded to trek through the park..which has a gorge and hot springs..without a guide.. they kept trying to give us one.. but we weren't interested... walked around for a bit.. the girls took a break and I proceeded to explore.. headed up to the top of a rock outcropping and snuck up behind (on top) of them... they were at the bottom in a riverbed... pretty cool stuff... they walked up to the top as well and we headed back to the car. Hit the camp for lunch and then back to Nairobi. We saw a gang of Kikuyu youths with sticks and batons and mallets ready to fight.. they were pissed off at the other tribe, the Masai and were gonna go for a rumble in the jungle... kinda scary, but mildly entertaining... the army guys were on standby a few minutes away in case things got out of hand... And before we knew it, we were back in Nairobi... All done Safari :( it was a great time and a great experience and must do for anyone coming down by these parts.
Left the next morning for Mombasa.. mmmm... coast...beach...party...tan..sunburn..party...
Day 1 8am
So after partying all weekend had to wake up bright and early on a sunday morning to head over to the Safari Company and meet our driver!
Paid for the Safari and got our sleeping bags and met Sammy our driver. There were some changes to the intinerary so we headed to Nakuru first. The truck we were in was a Land Cruiser with 2 roof panels that popped open all the way... now this is what I call a Sunroof!! these roads really suck... I have no idea how people do this on a regular basis. In the cruiser was Naomi, Marni and myself... luckily we hadn't picked anybody up yet. The Hotel in Nakuru looked a little shady, weird shower that was right next to the toilet... not too sure about this roughing it thing that we are doing... The bed was uncomfortable and really crappy... oh well ate lunch there and left with a driver named Joshua in a Suzuki Sidekick type car for a game drive in Nakuru national park. Our Land Cruiser went in for repairs.
We drove around the national park, got to see White Rhinos, Flamingoes, Zebra's Gazelles and a whole bunch of other animals...pretty cool stuff. There was lots of dust and so my allergies decided to kick in. lake Nakuru is very pretty... large flat land with trees and then this massive lake filled with flamingoes... we went up to a cliff that serves as a lookout point over the lake...it was quite breathtaking. too lots of pictures...including one that amazed me... here we were in the middle of nowhere and I had cell phone reception... go figure...
Back to the hotel for dinner and a really bad shower..
Day 2
Woke up had breakfast and we were off in the Land Cruiser for some more driving... stopped at a junction point (one of the safari companies transfer points I guess) and picked up Tapan and Rajiv from India, Teddy from Germany, and Martina from Switzerland. The truck was just paked with people... so much for having it all to ourselves :(
more driving on the crappy roads (I mean so bad that at points it was better to drive on the grass/dirt potholes than to attempt the ones on the road...10-15kph max) we finally got to the Masai Mara park and headed over to the Masai Village to see how they live and meet them. REally cool People but the whole experience was very touristy. went on a game drive. We saw lots of nice animals. We then headed over to the campsite... this was entertaining... at least all the tents were already up and had beds in them. A long drop for a bathroom and the showers were outdoor and encased in concrete and no lights...eeewww.... Luckily I got my own tent to sleep in, put up the mosquito net and popped my bags on the other bed. Keeping an open mind.. but boy was this low end... poor Feisal. We ate dinner and made some friends with a group from France, then went to bed and passed out cold...
Day 3 5:30am
Woke up bright and early for a game drive, but before that had a COLD shower in the dark and used the really useless toilet (have they heard of Seats???). Had to stand guard over the showers as the girls had theirs, guess some idiots had tried to get into their tents that morning so they were a little freaked out. Of course THEY get hot water.. hmph... We ate breakfast and took off.. We got to see Lions and Giraffes and Elephants. Gazelles, headed over to the Tanzania and Kenya Border, stopped at this really nice lodge for a bathroom break... Yay Seats!!! saw monkeys and these little cute baby ones too...
Headed off for a picnic lunch at a river wher hippos like to bathe.. Damn them things are HUGE! and Scary... but they make this eh eh eh sound that's entertaining...lol.. The food for a packed lunch was not bad, there was this most excellent Fruit Salad...mmm...'nanas
Went into the park for another Game drive... we saw a black rhino in the bushes near a small pond and proceeded to try and get a better look...guess the Rhino didn't like that too much, it came out of the bushes and growled at us and stomped its feet... a little scary seeing as the thing could very easily kill all of us and overturn the truck we were in... we were lucky... it gave us the "look of death" and then turned around and scampered off into the vast plains of the African savannah. The great thing was that there are very few Black Rhino's in the park... the driver we were with hadn't seen one for 6 months...so we were very, very fortunate to get to see one. We drove around some more, saw more animals and then headed back to "The Camp".
Once back at the camp, some of us headed off on a Masai Walk... this was up to the top of a hillside just in time to witness a spectacular sunset. Well worth the pain... my calves...oweee....Marni and Naomi had no problems at all... me an the other guy...pathetic... I was out of breath in all of umm... say 15 seconds of trekking... :( but boy was the sunset awesome..hopefully the pictures will be up at some point and all of yalls can enjoy. We headed back down and attempted to corrupt (ok I did) and teach him how to tell tourist to watch out for little piles of dung that were on the ground... the girls made reasonable suggestions.. "Watch out for the POOP"..."Look out for the SHIT" ha ha... poor guy... it was fun tho... got back to the campsite and had a hot shower, ate dinner and moved my bags into the girls' room.... I got to sleep with 2 cute women... that was my highlight... of course we were all in different beds and seperated by this silky white material called a MOSQUITO NET!! oh well... :) I barely slept all night... the net wasn't up properly so it was on my head for most of the night. damn thing...
Day 4 5:30am
Woke up bright and early again... headed off for yet another game drive.. saw 2 lions getting it on... quite entertaining... the female gets "seduced" by the male.. which involves him growling and biting her... then he does his thing.. she looks like she couldn't care less... 30 seconds later, he goes into his corner, she stays where she is and they take a nap... hmm... sounds like married life to me... LOL got video of it... can't wait to show you! we left the park..said bye bye to the Masai Mara National Park and headed to the junction point....
We stopped for lunch in Naroc.. .good food, went across the street for some Mango juice.. they make this bottle mango juice called Picana...mmm.mmmm.. good... changed people at the junction and headed off for our last nite... in Naivasha..
Drive was worse than Nakuru... roads really really sucked... I think we would have gotten there faster if we walked! got to Camp Crayfish and I saw tents... thought I might have to camp again.. which would probably involve me slitting my wrists.. or taking a bath in hippo infested waters... anything but camping again :( thank god it had rooms as well. shared shower and toilets (with seats) (the toilet had seats...not the showers...) had a hot water shower (YAY) we went for a walk by the water... heard a hippo.. eh eh eh. Didn't think it was a stupid thing to do at the time, but we went through an electrified fence (you could just detach the "wire" from the hook on the wooden post) walked by the water... came back... freaked the heck out of Marni as I pretended to be "shocked" by the line as I put it back...LOL..Priceless... eh eh eh.... but a few weeks later at another camp, some woman got killed by a Hippo that charged her, threw her into the air and then stomped on her... scary stuff. Saw another beautiful sunset and headed off for Dinner. This menu actually let you choose what you wanted to eat (YAY) then bedtime....
Day 5
Feeling kinda tired and drained in the morning... ate brekky and headed over to Hells Gate National Park. I would have liked to mountain bike into the park... but by the time I remembered, we had already passed the rental shop... Saw more aminals on the way in.. some of the odd names that I was calling them:
Raffi's
LelePhANTS
Zebebra's
Lyons
...Yes I was dropped on my head as a child....and yes, they are called aminals... just like Skizzors and Tynelol.
This place is gorgeous... we headed to the ranger station and then proceeded to trek through the park..which has a gorge and hot springs..without a guide.. they kept trying to give us one.. but we weren't interested... walked around for a bit.. the girls took a break and I proceeded to explore.. headed up to the top of a rock outcropping and snuck up behind (on top) of them... they were at the bottom in a riverbed... pretty cool stuff... they walked up to the top as well and we headed back to the car. Hit the camp for lunch and then back to Nairobi. We saw a gang of Kikuyu youths with sticks and batons and mallets ready to fight.. they were pissed off at the other tribe, the Masai and were gonna go for a rumble in the jungle... kinda scary, but mildly entertaining... the army guys were on standby a few minutes away in case things got out of hand... And before we knew it, we were back in Nairobi... All done Safari :( it was a great time and a great experience and must do for anyone coming down by these parts.
Left the next morning for Mombasa.. mmmm... coast...beach...party...tan..sunburn..party...
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