Like any other large and growing city, Nairobi has a rough underside that travelers are well advised to avoid. But Nairobi is also the vibrant, multicultural epicenter worth a few days to experience. We spent around a week exploring all its interesting parts during the day and lively...
In the afternoon, we took a two-hour walk on the Oloolua Nature Trail. Finding the main gate was easy, so we paid 600 KES in cash (no ticket) and started our walk. They told us it is well marked, but that’s not true, so we recommend taking a picture of the trail map hanging next to...
If you loved the Out of Africa movie, you’d love this museum as much as we did. It is located in the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The...
We took a Bolt and drove to the main gate, where we had to fill out the Entrance Pass and sign in to the book. Then we had to pay for the ticket (🎟️ 650 KES) in the museum building; we do not use the Mpesa, so we just gave them cash (no ticket). The primary collection here is housed in an...
We made another break from our busy schedule and took a half-day morning visit to Nairobi National Park. We could drive our vehicle there but did not know where to drive inside the park to catch the animals, so we booked a trip with Kenya Bush Expeditions (47 USD / person). Everyone would...
We had a lot of meetings in Nairobi and were pretty busy, but we made time to visit Kibera Slum. It is the poorest suburb in Nairobi and one of the largest slums in Africa. More than a million people live there in extreme conditions and make less than $1 daily. Diseases caused by poor...
Flights from Mombasa are twice the price compared to flights from Nairobi. So, we had two choices: a night bus or a night train to Nairobi. As usual, we made a wrong decision and chose a train. The first disaster is that there is no ticketing office in the city, and you have to drive to...
After the horrible 3 months in Mombasa, it was time to leave for our break. Since we did not plan to make a break in Kenya, finding a safe and reliable parking place for our newly repaired truck was pretty adventurous. We made a deal with government officials in one province to park in...
Then, our trip continued to Kenya’s southernmost fishing village, just 24km east of the border with Tanzania. Most of the fish consumed in Diani is caught here in Vanga. The village has played a significant role in both local and global history. In WWI, the border between British...
We still had some time, so we drove south to Shimoni. There, we found a complex of caves (🎟️400 KES) where slaves were supposedly kept before being loaded onto boats and shipped to the main auction in Zanzibar. A local guide (200 KES) took us around the dank caverns to illustrate this...