Africa

There’s nowhere like it on the planet for wildlife, wild lands and rich traditions that endure. Prepare to fall in love.

OLOOLUA NATURE TRAIL

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...

KAREN BLIXEN’S HOUSE

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...

NAIROBI RAILWAY MUSEUM

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...

NAIROBI NP

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...

KIBERA

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...

MADARAKA EXPRESS

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...