Originally written 29 March 2006
I just finished up an absolutely fantastic vacation in Kenya. Yeah, the plans to Iran fell through, but this was certainly the next best alternative. My friend Dimitri is doing an internship with a UN agency there and has been living there for three months. He invited his daughter and her mother for a couple of months to visit as well. His daughter Icy is three now - she was 16 months old when I carried her to the US from Guinea.
The vacation was fantastic! All of these pictures are from the first 3 days, when we went to the Masai Mara game reserve in the east of the country, on the border with Tanzania and the Serengheti.
In addition to these three days on safari, I spent two nights (and no days - I was in transit) in Addis Ababa where I ate some great Ethiopian food and saw lots of dancing and traditional Ethiopian outfits. An Ethiopian friend of mine took me out to show off her country.
The other 6 nights, I spent in Nairobi, or Nairobbery as some like to call it because of the extreme crime in the city. Nairobi was wonderful, and I just basked in some of the luxeries of the big-town. Good food, shopping malls, nightclubs, etc.
Overall, it was a real pleasure to get out and see completely different parts of Africa and a very different African lifestyle than that I am used to. Also, I will now be able to answer that question "Oh you live in Africa, do you see lots of animals?" with a resounding YES! (Then I will say that I eat them too, like ostrich, crocodile, camel, and wart hog!) I was due for a good vacation to discover new things, and this was a good way to go - and I add two more countries to my list of places visited.
Now, I am back to work in N'Djamena, Chad, feeling a bit refreshed now. There was a solar eclipse today - we had about 80% coverage. Reminded me of when I was in high school and we had a solar eclipse that passed through Ohio.
Hakuna matata
I just finished up an absolutely fantastic vacation in Kenya. Yeah, the plans to Iran fell through, but this was certainly the next best alternative. My friend Dimitri is doing an internship with a UN agency there and has been living there for three months. He invited his daughter and her mother for a couple of months to visit as well. His daughter Icy is three now - she was 16 months old when I carried her to the US from Guinea.
The vacation was fantastic! All of these pictures are from the first 3 days, when we went to the Masai Mara game reserve in the east of the country, on the border with Tanzania and the Serengheti.
In addition to these three days on safari, I spent two nights (and no days - I was in transit) in Addis Ababa where I ate some great Ethiopian food and saw lots of dancing and traditional Ethiopian outfits. An Ethiopian friend of mine took me out to show off her country.
The other 6 nights, I spent in Nairobi, or Nairobbery as some like to call it because of the extreme crime in the city. Nairobi was wonderful, and I just basked in some of the luxeries of the big-town. Good food, shopping malls, nightclubs, etc.
Overall, it was a real pleasure to get out and see completely different parts of Africa and a very different African lifestyle than that I am used to. Also, I will now be able to answer that question "Oh you live in Africa, do you see lots of animals?" with a resounding YES! (Then I will say that I eat them too, like ostrich, crocodile, camel, and wart hog!) I was due for a good vacation to discover new things, and this was a good way to go - and I add two more countries to my list of places visited.
Now, I am back to work in N'Djamena, Chad, feeling a bit refreshed now. There was a solar eclipse today - we had about 80% coverage. Reminded me of when I was in high school and we had a solar eclipse that passed through Ohio.
Hakuna matata
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