by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
We’ve been in Africa for eight weeks. Thus far we’ve had four major problems. The first one was when our train from Dar Es Salaam to Mbeya had everyone disembark in the middle of nowhere because the train in front of us had crashed. We were left scrambling to find a...
by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
After our poor experience on Lamu Island, we had an incredible experience in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya. We flew from Lamu Island to Nairobi. We had one night in at the excellent Razana hotel. Then on November 11th we caught a bush plane flight to the Finch...
by Mike Wood | Nov 16, 2025
We went to Lamu Island, a world heritage site and a recommended place to visit in Kenya. Don’t go. There was a lot of trash and there’s not much there. The Airbnb that we had reserved was a disaster. Missing windows, screens with holes in them, dreary and...
by Mike Wood | Oct 26, 2025
After leaving Nairobi, we headed to Lake Naivasha and Hell’s Gate National Park. We had booked an Airbnb for six nights using $320 of our Airbnb credit so that we could stay for free. The pictures looked good and it was supposed to have A/C, a bbq, wifi, etc....
by Mike Wood | Oct 26, 2025
We were fortunate to stay in the Hilton Hemingways Nairobi SLH (Small Luxury Hotels of the world) property. There were lots of Vervet monkeys on the property and we were advised to keep our door to our room closed so that they wouldn’t come in and steal our...
