Honeymoon
Well I've finally got around to uploading my pictures, so I can post something about our honeymoon.
It was Fantastic!
We flew out to Nairobi airport overnight, and after getting picked up, drove 250km south through Kenya to the Amboseli reserve, over possibly the worst roads I've seen in my life. Although after a while you stopped noticing the bumps, potholes and large sections of missing road - it became the norm.
We spend two days in Amboseli, on the border with Tanzania, just under Mt Kilimanjaro, seeing some fantastic sites - Cheetah, Lions, Zebra, Wildebeest, Buffalo, Elephants, Hippos, Gazelles Hyena, Fish Eagles and many more. We even visited a Masai village where we had a welcome, looked round the plance and got ripped off for souvenirs :)
Day 3 saw us driving 350km northwest to lake Naivasha, to the most amazing resort.
Wild giraffes eating the plants outside our room - we could get to within 10 feet before they started to slowly wander away. There's something very nice about swimming a length of the pool, breaking the surface and seeing a giraffe looking at you!
Night time we had to be escorted back to our rooms with a guard, to make protect us from the hippos that came up to graze outside the rooms
Day 4 & 5 we drove 250km southwest to the Masai Mara to do another 2 days safari, seeing so many more animals; lions with cubs were plentiful and very photogenic.
Amazing.
I hired a large zoom lens for the duration of the holiday and was so glad I did - I'm really pleased with how the photos came out. Feel free to have a looksee here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weetobix/collections/72157617171245724/
Day 6 we left for Nairobi for our connecting flight to Zanzibar.
It took a little longer than expected thanks to plane cancellations and taxis getting punctures, but we got the in the end at 1.30 in the morning.
After some sleep we woke up and saw the paradise we were in :)
Really nice, simple huts, directly on the white beach, looking out at the Indian ocean.
Day 7-14
Read books, swam in the pool, walked along the beach, collected shells, played with hermit crabs, swam with dolphins, ate, drank, slept.
Nice! :)
It was Fantastic!
We flew out to Nairobi airport overnight, and after getting picked up, drove 250km south through Kenya to the Amboseli reserve, over possibly the worst roads I've seen in my life. Although after a while you stopped noticing the bumps, potholes and large sections of missing road - it became the norm.
We spend two days in Amboseli, on the border with Tanzania, just under Mt Kilimanjaro, seeing some fantastic sites - Cheetah, Lions, Zebra, Wildebeest, Buffalo, Elephants, Hippos, Gazelles Hyena, Fish Eagles and many more. We even visited a Masai village where we had a welcome, looked round the plance and got ripped off for souvenirs :)
Day 3 saw us driving 350km northwest to lake Naivasha, to the most amazing resort.
Wild giraffes eating the plants outside our room - we could get to within 10 feet before they started to slowly wander away. There's something very nice about swimming a length of the pool, breaking the surface and seeing a giraffe looking at you!
Night time we had to be escorted back to our rooms with a guard, to make protect us from the hippos that came up to graze outside the rooms
Day 4 & 5 we drove 250km southwest to the Masai Mara to do another 2 days safari, seeing so many more animals; lions with cubs were plentiful and very photogenic.
Amazing.
I hired a large zoom lens for the duration of the holiday and was so glad I did - I'm really pleased with how the photos came out. Feel free to have a looksee here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/weetobix/collections/72157617171245724/
Day 6 we left for Nairobi for our connecting flight to Zanzibar.
It took a little longer than expected thanks to plane cancellations and taxis getting punctures, but we got the in the end at 1.30 in the morning.
After some sleep we woke up and saw the paradise we were in :)
Really nice, simple huts, directly on the white beach, looking out at the Indian ocean.
Day 7-14
Read books, swam in the pool, walked along the beach, collected shells, played with hermit crabs, swam with dolphins, ate, drank, slept.
Nice! :)