Our final Maasai Mara National Reserve safari started at 6am. The sunrise was brief yet spectacular. Our guides hoped to find a leopard before we left, but the search turned up a family of giraffes instead. Two of them were play fighting and I was more than happy to sit and watch their antics instead…

We slept well, regardless of shrieking baboons and monkeys outside the tent. The tent flaps need to be locked to ensure no curious animals become unexpected house guests. Morning safari started at sunrise, 6:15. The hot air balloons added to the magical ambience. It took great resistance to not ask our guides to continually stop…

Today felt like three days in one! We’re in Kenya! Our overnight flight to Nairobi arrived just before sunrise. Passport control took around an hour, as the process of checking e-visas and fingerprinting each person was rather slow. After meeting our transfer driver we bought esims for SafariCom & MPesa. The three employees setting up…

We are off on a big adventure! The first leg of our journey took us to Amsterdam for a day. The flight left at 1:10pm our time, lasted 10 hours, and arrived 8:00am Amsterdam time.  Other than the usual discomfort of a long flight and the impossibility of getting real sleep, it was smooth going.…