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...
by Mike Wood | Oct 23, 2025
We’ve spent five weeks in Tanzania. Here’s my impressions: The Good: The safari national parks are completely clean, well organized and have good infrastructure. The people (in businesses that you are working with) are incredibly friendly and helpful....
by Mike Wood | Oct 20, 2025
We were in a fabulous Marriott Autograph property on Zanzibar. It’s not a high rise, but several separate two story buildings and villas. Thick smoke started billowing out of one section of the property. And about 20 employees were running around and pulling out...
by Mike Wood | Oct 17, 2025
After the debacle with the train and taxi, we spent one night in Iringa and then we caught a flight back to Dar Es Salaam. We stayed in a great Ramada using only 13,500 Wyndham points. They had a huge 54 meter pool and an expansive breakfast buffet. The next day we...
