Work and Wanderlust - Kenya travel blog

• Day 45 (we go forth) 9 years ago We pulled into Nairobi in the early afternoon, with plenty of time for me to call a taxi and get back home to my apartment.  But somewhere along the way, without flair or fanfare, the bus/tent combo became my new normal, and I chose to spend a final night at the campsite before returning to my...
• Day 44 (from the bush) 9 years ago Our final day in the Serengeti was all about the lions.  We were on the road before the sun rose, and came upon a full pack of adults and cubs in our first hundred meters.  Lions in the earliest morningSerengeti sunriseWe later saw another family sleeping in the grass, yawning on the side of the...
• Day 43 (in the Serengeti) 9 years ago I never really thought I'd be in the Serengeti until about 10 minutes into our first game drive. After lunch at the Ngorogoro Crater, we drove through the Tanzanian countryside to the Serengeti, stopping just inside the entrance to climb up to a viewpoint and gaze out over the vast plains while...
• Day 42 (the Ngorogoro Crater) 9 years ago The final few days on our epic-ish journey, the bits between Arusha and Nairobi, were spent off the grid in the Ngorogoro Crater and the Serengeti.  My hand-written journal is blank for those days, only giving a summation from the final campsite in Kenya.  Now, a year later, I'm looking back...
• Days 40-41 (over rough roads) 9 years ago The last few days have been transit days.  A shuttle to a ferry to a bus to a ferry to a bus in order to leave Zanzibar. Leaving ZanzibarWe spent a night at the same beachside camp in Dar with little stinging jellyfish bits interrupting the afternoon swim, and then embarked before dawn on a very...

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