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The menu. Mine had less wines than bAlt's. Told the full wine list was correct and gthat was good beacuse bAlt wanted the chardy then Kili, again. Twice in a day. Just amazing drinks service. Gin for me, chardy for bAlt then the meal soon after. I really liked my biriyani but bAlt's lamb...

Time to begine our long journeys home. bAlt super concerned for bStut as he's flying to a potential warzone but no news from Emirates is good news. We were all on the same flight to Kenya Airways flight to Nairobi. 9.30 departure with final bag drop by 8.30. Sammy had originally said an 8am...

Monday's coughtail list of which we tried one, two, four and maybe three as well so to the Italian dinner. the 'restaurant' was set up in the Swahili Lounge that overlooks the ocean and the adults only pool. Arrived just after 7.30. There were five tables. A group of two, us a three, a four...

Sammy was surprised, and I bet a relieved, that we had no plans to leave the hotel on Monday. Being on call was part of the exhorbitant charge I guess. Late breakfast, late lunch, coughtails and Italian for dinner. The latter had to be booked in advance. Tide out sports pool? This one supper...

All of us a little concerned about how we'd go on the dhow if it rained but as I had said throughout the whole holiday, what will be will be. We'd tried to book for our night in Old Town as we mistakenly thought the dhow, and Tamarind Restaurant, were on the island. Lucky for us only Sunday was...

I forgot to say that when we got dropped off at the Amboseli gate after the balloon adventure, Jackson was waitinf for us in our original vehicle. He had driven a three hour round trip at some stage overnight to get it back after repair. Great gey, great safari company. Back to Mombasa Sammy...

Kennedy then offered us a tour of the Old Town for another USD10/KES1200 and we're all glad we said yes. It was super interesting and he showed us places we would not have seen. Although there are three well marked walking trails through the area, local insight is invaluable original door...

Decent nights sleep and a late breakfast. I'm not sure why I didn't book breakfast as it was KES5000 for the two of us, $30 each a different view of the pool, this time from the roof top terrace We checked out right on 10 and stored our bags at reception. It was only about 15 minutes walk to...

Sentrim Castle Royal Hotel isa very cool old building that has lived through a number of incarnations before being bought by Sentrim. We chose this place so we could walk to Fort Jesus and the Old Twon before heading for the beach. Sentrim has carried out a fairly sympathetic renovation. A...

It was a pretty short drive through Voi to the station. As with most modern infrastructre in Africa, the train line and rolling stock were built by the Chinese. We had to pick up our tickets an hour before the departure time. We got there at 11, eight minutes before the hour. With Jackson on...

Day 20 Ashnil Aruba Tsavo East to Sentrim Royal Castle Mombasa around Ashnil Aruba Lodge. They have a small number of luxury tents that I have a feeling Jackson though we were in, the permanent units that we were in and 12 'club' rooms that opened the night we arrived we really liked the...

as we got to the lodge we could see LOTS of vehicles down the road leading along the side of the airfield. That could only mean one thing. Here is what we were surrounded by as the light started to fade. A pride of 19 lions in the oether direction bAlt was watching a very large group of...

another long conversation with Remitly tryng to get the money transfer to Jackson approved. It was for the Mmbasa guy and the train tickets. They were only KES1500 each for first class seats.The wifi was terrible and just as I was about to be called by them the wifi dropped out. I found a spot...

the entrance to Tsavo East that we used was just through Voi. Jackson had asked us if we'd be interested in catching the train into Mombasa from Voi instead of him dropping us off at our hotel. This meant he could head home to Nairobl much earlier. I was a bit torn as Tapestry is responsible...

Day 19 Last night of the safari Taita Hills to Ashnil Aruba, Tsavo East NP Loving the late starts. We didn't have to pack before we went to Salt Lick. Plenty of time when we got back to Taita. Full power available in the back of the vehicle whatever you wanted to charge quite an amazing...

Room already turned down when we decided to get out of the pool buffet menu displayed. Not that there's anywhere else to go if you think yeh, nah beautiful restaurant space, good food, and yet again lovely staff tonight's wine just us with driver and spotlighter to be totally honest it...

Hahahaha. Many, many years ago I was one of the doormen at the Hyatt at Sanctuary Cove. We wore a ridiculous outfit of jacket and jodphurs with pith helmet. We're the dags in shorts and thongs most of the time.

We ran into an issue at the gate. The Kenya Wildlife Service ranger would not let us exit the park. We had the receipt that showed our entry, but for some reason he was not accepting it. Jackson was getting super angry as we were getting close to missing lunch (none of us was going to...

we'd been in Tsavo West for quite a while and apart from the klipspringers we'd seen zero animals. We saw a couple of giraffes, a couple of lesser kudus, and oryx and some zebras having a huge kicking beano that we didn't manage to get any video of then we arrived at surprise number two, Mzuni...

Day 18 Amboseli Sopa to Taita Hills Resort and Spa, Tsavo West Some last shots around the Amboseli Sopa. Luxury late start of 08:00 Hemigngways towards the bottom right and our little bungalows just above it the truly giant Masai who greets and says goodbye to you at Sopa off we go...