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No toilets out there although that's a bit of a white lie. We were taken to the Serena lodge for a luxury pee :)

flamingoes saddle bill stork we followed another vehicle through this. Jackson said they had just dumped rocks in it without any attempt to press them in. Gee was it rough. Right towards the end it dipped quite deep this Hiace then came through and went way down as it hit the deep spot but...

South African bubbly breakfast was excellent. A lovley young guy called Collins looked after us all. Lots fo interesting and funny conversation with the tour operators a few too many glasses of bubbles were had, especially considering we were going straight out on a long morning safari...

all of these from the balloon and down after about 100 minutes one of the crazy gang of four Kenyan travel operators who were on a product famil missing from the photo. They were hilarious. All ran their own boutique agencies the great crew who looked after us Kili looking very...

for me Balozi followed by White Cap Lager, although we've just discovered White Cap Crisp here in Mombasa. We also like Tusker Light. Stay tuned. Day 17 Amboseli National Park including balloon safari and game drive straight after When we booked the trip a balloon safari was an option at...

the sun was on it's way down and we were on our way out. Kili was just about perfectly clear. Some final elephants. A close up encounter with a giraffe, and group photos with Kili in the background we decided againt a drink up at Hemingways after dinner. Early start in the morning for our...

Then it was time for a late afternoon Amboseli game drive. The lodge was about 20km outside of the park. My suggestion will be to ask if there isn't a lodge closer to the park that could be offered. Sopa is nice but driving time means less animal time :) As were were driving to the gate more of...

the lunch buffet, and the dinner and breakfast buffets, were a step up from any other lodge we'd stayed at mongeese. Yeh, ok, not a real word pudding!!

While we were waiting for lunch the head barman Emmanuel came and talked to us. He explained lots about the lodge but most of all about Hemingways, the bar very close to our bungalows. It was actually built by Ernest Hemingway in the late 50s. It is in the shape of Africa, and in the...

Day 16, the return to Kenya Chanya Lodge Moshi to Amboseli Sopa Lodge Open air dining and bar at Chanya our excellent, very quiet guide, Ernest on the road to the Tanzania - Kenya border just terrifying oranges the very, very long line of trucks waiting at the border crossing we'd...

Chanya Lodge was a great surprise. Our first, and only, urban stay. Up a bumpy little road off the main road were a set of gates and behind them this cool little lodge a full sized cape wolf snake on the driveway. 25cm long and not venemous very nice quirky room beautiful gardens...

The coffee demo was super good. I wish we'd taken a picture of the place we visited. While we were waiting for the demo to strat a group arrived covered in mud. Lovely Swedish family. I asked how bad was it and they said really slippery and there's no way you could do it without ending up on...

Day 15 Tarangire Simba Lodge to Chanya Lodge, Moshi After the misfire with Lake Manyara, Ernest knew exactly whay was on our schedule each day and today was to include more than we knew about. We knew a waterfall visit was on the agenda but the coffee making demo and local foods lunch were a...

a couple of young giraffes getting their fight practicing in for the day a big old tusker it was about this time that we started getting buzzed by flies, and they not just any flies, they were bloody tsetse flies. Did we know Tarangire was known for them? Yes. Did bAlt and I where...

Day 14 Full day Tarangire National Park Up at sparrow fart yet again. Wandered into the bathroom to start getting ready and this happened. I think I am very, very lucky that I didn't go the whole way through dawn as we were being escorted to the lodge building the guard confirmed that the...

mongoose at the entrance some more of the beautiful sunset. water buck out by the waterhole firepit peeps Another camp/lodge where we were not allowed to walk unaccompanied after dusk and until dawn Buffet again for dinner. All freshly prepared and the chefs standing proudly behind...

the pland was for Ernest to drive the whole way down the length of the park/lake and we would come out very close to our lodge. Unfortunately due to lake rises and rain washouts this became impossible so we turned back. This gave us the opportunity to stop for lunch at a large picnic area. we...

Is that weapon completely disproportionate or what to that little guys size??? back to g rated Lake Manyara a bird of some kind there are of course hippos in the lake hadada ibis I can't resist. Dik dik elephants of all sizes. There were a lot of elephants here and they seemed to be...

Say 13 Ngorongoro Tented Safari Camp to Simba Tarangire Camp Looking back through my notes that I put into my phone as we go I have - Ngorongoro comes from the the sound of cow bells ringing Poli poli - slowly slowly A new Geopark Museum has been constructed on the road from the crater...

What a unexpected surprise Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge was. It was really really nice instead of tents we found ourselves in the best two of the eight solid structure rooms the view from our verandah back towards the crater in case a baboon comes in and tries to attack us ;) our rooms...