As today & tomorrow are primarily driving days we wanted to share some of our observations of driving in East Africa: a) it's uber important to overtake the person in front of you regardless of oncoming traffic, busy-ness of queue and space to move back into your lane b) should there be a barrier across the road and an official person stopping traffic to allow contra directional traffic through ignore this and drive along the ditch c) if you're on either a...

We were up at 0500 for an 0600 start. Today was a full day game drive in Nakuru National Park and it was amazing. I had two highlights - close encounters with both white and black rhino and watching a stream of 14 giraffe who were in a mission to somewhere! Tessa's highlights were - the rhino and the multitudes of zebra. We were split into two Toyota vans. Our driver was Freddy and we started the morning listening to the local Christian radio station ("the pure...

Today we started with a hippo cruise on Lake Naivasha - awesome. We saw 3 families of hippo - 4, 10 and 20. The second two families were resting their heads above water - either on a small island or on each other. We also saw many different birds - apparently there are more than 300 species around the lake. In one part of the lake is Crescent Island which has wildebeest, zebra, gazelle & giraffe on it who are the descendants of animals used in the "Born Free...

Tessa & I decided on a quiet morning whilst the others went on a guided cycle. There were 4 of us left in camp. As I returned to our tent after breakfast and crouched down to undo the zip I noticed something at the periphery of my vision sticking out from under the tent - focusing on it I realised it was a freshwater prawn ... it turned out to still be alive and because it had been raining they had left the lake for a night time walk. Mark kindly took it back...

Another early start to do a morning game drive - as well as seeing most things we'd seen yesterday we saw two lions at a distance - one which was resting under a tree whilst his friend seemed to be having a stroll. We also saw a herd of elephants really close up - a wonderful experience as the youngest (less than 1 year old) gambol around. Another highlight was sitting in the truck as a small portion of the wildebeest migration went around either side of us at a ...