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My Africa Diaries: Nashipai’s Big Adventure

My Africa Diaries: Nashipai’s Big Adventure

Published July 8, 2014

There’s one particular story about my Africa trip that I’ve been saving. I’ve described in previous posts my 3-day safari to the Maasai Mara – but I’ve not yet discussed the events of the final morning prior to our return to Nairobi. (If you’re just joining us, read this post for a recap of our time with the Maasai and an explanation of my Maasai name ‘Nashipai’ and this post for a recap of our safari game drives.) Now that the Maasai Mara wildlife reserve charges a full day’s fees regardless of how long you visit, it doesn’t make much…

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My Africa Diaries: The Mara

My Africa Diaries: The Mara

Published May 26, 2014

After our first day of pre-safari adventures, our next two days were full day game drives in the Maasai Mara game reserve. Each morning started quite early – usually up by 5:30 so that my colleague and I could shower and dress before breakfast. The meals at the camp were generally great comfort food, but I’ve gone into great detail on the food if you’re interested in more about that. Breakfast conversation was primarily centered around which animals each of us had heard the night before. As it turns out, hyenas sound just like they did in the Lion King.…

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My Africa Diaries: Close Encounters of the Maasai Kind

My Africa Diaries: Close Encounters of the Maasai Kind

Published May 25, 2014

On our first day on safari, we discovered that the Masai Mara reserve had changed their policy so that it was impossible to pay for a partial safari day – and charges per person per day are $80, so a visit of a few hours wouldn’t be cost efficient. Thus, instead of starting directly with a game drive, we moved our village visit to the first evening to get the most from our time and money. The village was a Maasai village about a mile’s walk from our camp. Our guide, a Maasai warrior, took us down the path. It…

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My Africa Diaries: Video Safari

Published May 20, 2014

Video diary of our travel to and time in the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya: Since I’m not a professional cinematographer or photographer, my goal on safari was largely to experience it myself, not to document it perfectly. I brought my relatively new point and shoot camera (Powershot ELPH 330). I love the video journaling function on this camera, but turned it off to save space for longer videos for this trip. I ended up with a few hundred photos and 8GB of HD video. (My battery died halfway through the first day of safari since I forgot to…

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My Africa Diaries: The Good Safaritans

My Africa Diaries: The Good Safaritans

Published May 17, 2014

After a full week at the iHub, we awakened early to meet our safari guides for our 5 hour drive to the Maasai Mara. The van we were to take was out front along with numerous other safari vehicles – the Norfolk is a very common starting point for safaris going back to the 1900s. Of course, they were typically weeks instead of days, but they didn’t have radios or cell phones to share information, either. We chose to drive in to the camp – which meant subjecting ourselves to what locals affectionately call “the Maasai massage”. Once you leave…

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