Curiously by the time we had all gotten up this morning the awful festival seemed to have shut up, finally. We had breakfast and went for a short drive to Saida orphanage. When we got there I was immediately grabbed by a little girl called Monica and shown around. We went out into the yard and played with the kids, pushed them on swings and played soccer with them. I put my sunglasses on this little girl who seemed about three and she loved that and I let her wa...

Finally, after what seemed like ages, we left Nairobi. We drove north through the Rift Valley stopping to take pictures along the way. At the photo stop I bought two Masai blankets, which will go very nicely with the spears I bought. We continued on for about another hour until we got to Naivasha, we couldn't camp at the place Dragoman usually camp at, as they were hosting the Rift Valley music festival. We set up next door and we had a bit of free time to just ...

Stuck in Nairobi We left Arusha at the crack of dawn, or rather we attempted to leave at the crack of dawn. There was something wrong with the tyre and we had to change it at the last minute. Nothing like a last minute delay first thing in the morning, perhaps I should have taken this as a sign of things to come. We finally left at about 8::30am and hit the long bumpy road out of Tanzania, when I say long and bumpy I mean long and bumpy! I have never been on su...

We had a nice late start today, if you call 8am late. We packed up and headed for the town of Mt wo Mba to do another one of those cultural experiences I've come to love. Not.These usually consist of you traipsing around a village all day in the heat, while being hassled by the locals into buying tacky souvenirs and then you get fed a lunch which usually makes you sick. I went on this one, it was ok at first, but then the uphill walk started.This definitely wa...

Up with the sun again and we packed up the camp and headed off for the Ngorongoro Crater.On the way, we managed to finally see a cheetah.She was a mother with cubs, but in the distance so we had to use binoculars. We reached the spectacular crater after about a hours drive and dodging wildebeasts that ran in front of us on the road.We drove down into it and then stopped for lunch by a small lake.On the way in we past another lake that was covered in pink flami...