Feeling the Rhythm – Samburu Kenya The colorful tribes of Samburu in Kenya seems to always be dancing.  While on safari in Samburu Park, we stopped in one of the Samburu villages; an eye opening, music-filled experience.  Each of the women took our hands and brought us into their tribal dance adorning us with colorful [...]

Pronounced – ‘la-moo’ View Kenya Photography View All Lamu Snapshots We arrived in Lamu yesterday via a small 20 passenger plane and a very good looking your pilot! When we arrived at the small airfield it was lightly sprinkling, but by the time they took our luggage out on a little 2 wheel wooden cart [...]

View all snapshots of Mombassa View Kenya Photography Kenya was a real mix of classes – poor and ‘well -off’ – at times it was such a wide gap to take in – that it really kind of made your stomach turn. I can’t simply say that I just experienced this only in Kenya – [...]

View Photography of Safari and Samburu Tribe View all snapshots of the safari View snapshots of the Samburu Tribe We’ve seen some amazing animals here – you can get so close with no boundaries.  When I was young we used to go on field trips to Wild Life Prairie Park outside of Peoria – there [...]

The food here is a vegetarian’s nightmare as well as a Atkin’s dieter’s nightmare – luckily – I’m neither of these so I am enjoying this meat heavy, carbo loaded Kenyan diet I am on! The food is hearty with many stew-like dishes with rice – yet the sauces they use have a distinct Indian [...]

We’ve made it to Samburu National Park/Safari which is wonderful but half the fun was getting here from Nairobi.  It was a 6 hour drive through Nairobi and the Kenyan countryside.  We were able to see the bustling city of Nairobi on a Monday morning.  There were people everywhere – like an army of ants [...]