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Chasing Unicorns. The Sudanese Visa.
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 December 2009
Taken straight out of my journal notes. Disclaimer for poor grammar,etc It’s moving day again today. Somehow another three mosquitos managed to get into my mosquito net and haunt my dreams. I wonder sometimes if it’s not called a mosquito net because it attracts them. I’m not feeling entirely well this morning – almost fluey. Putting [...]
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A quick glimpse of Nairobi nightlife
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 29 November 2009
"Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats as we approach Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta airport."I'm slightly apprehensive leaving Uganda as I leave behind the familiarity of the Luganda greetings that I've been having such fun with over the last nine months. I feel like an outsider again. Will everyone speak English?
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Transparency: Not Just for Lenders
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 13 November 2009
By Maia Pelleg, KF9, Kenya Agency for the Development of Enterprise and Technology (KADET) This video was filmed in response to the following interaction I had with a borrower group outside of Nairobi, Kenya… “Habari. Nina itwa Maia,” I practice saying as I walk into my first group meeting of the day. A KADET credit officer [...]
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Kenya by Numbers
Blog: Africa Attraction - 10 November 2009
Day 36 25.10.09Arusha-Namanga (A104)Accommodation:Distance travelled: 70 milesDay 37 26.10.09
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Shock Horror
Blog: Africa Attraction - 9 November 2009
It’s funny how the world works. Having completed one of the most dangerous roads we’re likely to take, we arrived in a town full of the friendliest people we’re likely to meet.
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Ode to Zanzibar/Dust, Drought and a Masai Called John
Blog: Africa Attraction - 1 November 2009
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Killing Time after a Kill
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 19 October 2009
9/29/09: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya Knowing you like we think we do, there’s only so many lion pictures that you can enjoy on this blog before you get tired of them. There, I’d say you’re more than tired of them now (and we still have our Serengeti game drive to come!). Honestly though, that was easily the [...]
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Scrap Footage from the Animal Planet
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 18 October 2009
9/28/09: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya We have no pictures documenting this incident. We have no film. All you have to go on is our word. We were rushing to see the lions shortly after their zebra kill, as alluded to in Zhou’s post yesterday. One of the buses in our group was just leaving, and the [...]
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When Two Elephants Fight…
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 17 October 2009
9/27/09 – 9/28/09: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya … It’s the grass that gets hurt. - African proverb … It all started with the gorillas. “Zhou, let me take some pictures, you take some time to watch the gorillas.” “Zhou, I have a better angle, let me take some pictures.” “Zhou, I’m taller, you can’t see through the bushes, let me [...]
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I’d Sure Hate to Break Down Here… Awww, Nuts
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 16 October 2009
9/27/09: Nairobi, Kenya To Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya What do you think about when looking out the car window? I usually daydream about my professional golfing career, or facing off with Morimoto in a chili dog battle on Food Network’s Iron Chef, or deciphering the secret behind blowing out while you whistle (as opposed [...]
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The Carnivore’s Dilemma
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 15 October 2009
9/27/09: Nairobi, Kenya Tonight we ate at Carnivore. Though it doesn’t call itself a Brazilian steakhouse, that’s pretty much what it is. Kevin ate his body weight in meat, and I ate just a tad more. We had: sausages, spare ribs, steak, turkey, chicken gizzards, chicken wings, chicken legs, pork chops, more pork, lamb chops, more [...]
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Dazed and Confused and Soaking It All In
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 14 October 2009
9/26/09: Nairobi, Kenya It all started out simply enough… We were leaving the market after our elephant adventure, and we just needed to get a cab to take us ten minutes down the road. There were seven of us, all walking toward the street with grocery bags and other souvenirs in hand. We were expecting to walk [...]
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I’m Your Umbrella Holder, How Can I Help You?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 13 October 2009
9/26/09: David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya Have you ever seen that commercial for Banana Boat with the guys in suits holding umbrellas over people as they bike sit on the beach? I never thought I’d see personal umbrella holders in real life, but today I did! Baby elephants are apparently very sensitive to the [...]
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Blog Post for a Successful Marriage
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 12 October 2009
9/25/09: Naiberi Resort in Eldoret, Kenya to Nairobi, Kenya We have officially traded our days of Ugandan rain and mud for Kenyan heat and heat. And dirt. Technically, we crossed the border yesterday, but somehow we brought some of the rain with us to Eldoret. [Side note: I forgot to mention two nights ago we thought we [...]
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Big Trucks, Big People and Bribery
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 10 October 2009
9/24/09: Kampala, Uganda to Naiberi Resort in Eldoret, Kenya I don’t know if I’ve ever been so impressed by anyone doing anything than by our driver, Richard, navigating these African “roads” in the gigantic truck in which he hauls us around. Richard is one of the biggest, nicest guys you’ll meet and he seems to know [...]
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Call Us Indiana Jones and, ummm, Mrs. Jones
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 24 September 2009
9/13/09: Naiberi Resort in Eldoret, Kenya There are no detours in Kenya. We must have driven one road for over three hours without ever seeing a crossing road. That by itself is not a big problem, but when you add road construction to the mix things get interesting. Guess where they route you when the road [...]
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Morning Gymnastics
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 23 September 2009
9/12/09-9/13/09: Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya I think maybe with the whole claustrophobia thing that Kevin wrote about in his last post that it might have been a good idea for us to go camping once or twice before we ventured on this 6-week camping trip. I mean, I figured there would be bugs and we [...]
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Gorilla Warfare?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 21 September 2009
9/12/09: Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya Don’t you hate it when those darn baboons run off with your lunch? Today we set up our table for sandwiches in Lake Nakuru National Park fully expecting an onslaught of vicious baboons trying to grab any morsel they could get their hands on. Fortunately our driver was prepared with [...]
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Urban Safari
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 20 September 2009
Life on a rubbish dump in Mombasa, Kenya's second city.
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It’s Like We’re in a Foreign Country
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 19 September 2009
9/12/09: Kenya Before you judge me, I’m as big of Ohio State fan as there is. Missing the OSU – USC game was originally one of my biggest fears with going on this trip. Now that we have that cleared up, I could now almost care less about the game (key word being almost – in [...]
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One Degree From Kevin Bacon
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 18 September 2009
9/11/09: Nairobi, Kenya Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be Kevin Bacon? I used to. But if his life is similar to the character he played in The Air Up There, then Zhou and I now know. Why? Because we’re in Africa! The first thing that struck me about Nairobi was the toll booth guard. [...]
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The majestic Masaai Mara
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 10 September 2009
This is the third of a four-part series on national parks in Kenya and Tanzania. The Masaai Mara is a national reserve in Kenya, about a 4-5 hour drive southwest of Nairobi, and encompasses a hilly region (that continues into the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania) that is home to probably the greatest population of wild [...]
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Trip Advice For Kenya
Blog: GoBackpacking - 9 September 2009
Preface: I did some house cleaning around GoBackpacking in preparation for the launch of the new layout. Any useful bits of information that had been stored in the corners of the castle are being dusted off and presented anew. The following information was sent to me around 2000 by a traveler named Alexander.
