Kenya’s Maasai Mara–Animals & Tribal Culture

Kenya’s Maasai Mara–Animals & Tribal Culture

Perhaps two of the most famous safari locations in Africa are the adjacent Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and Maasai Mara in Kenya. During approximately August through September, columns with millions of Wildebeests and Zebras migrate back and forth between the...
Rural Kenya Starts on Edges of Cities

Rural Kenya Starts on Edges of Cities

Though the Walleighs spent lots of time working and living in Nairobi in 2007, during their many visits to Kenya, starting in 1997 and into 2012, they passed through many rural areas of the country.  It fascinated them how rural zones merge with the edges of most...
Central Kenya: Aberdare, Treetops, The Ark and Lewa Downs

Central Kenya: Aberdare, Treetops, The Ark and Lewa Downs

The Walleighs took another trip to central Kenya with their friends Fred and Judy (and their adorable sons) to the Outspan Hotel near Aberdare National Park, not far from Mt. Kenya. While there, Rick and Wendy traveled nearby to the Treetops resort, famous for its...
Kenya’s Alkaline Lakes–Nakuru & Elementaita–AND Hellsgate

Kenya’s Alkaline Lakes–Nakuru & Elementaita–AND Hellsgate

Wendy and Rick’s first day trip in 2007 was about two hours north of Nairobi to the so-called soda aka alkaline lakes, which attract thousands of Flamingoes every year because of these lakes’ huge population of fresh-water shrimp (lending the Flamingoes...
Kenya: In and Around Nairobi Plus Office Colleagues

Kenya: In and Around Nairobi Plus Office Colleagues

Approximately 10% of Kenya’s population lives in Nairobi, population 4 million–about 4 times the total population of Swaziland.  It sprawls over many miles with the characteristics of any major city in the world, consisting of the same contrasts of...