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...
by Mike Wood | Oct 12, 2025
during our drive to the train station, the taxi broke down. We then switched to a Bajaj and the driver got lost. We got to the train station late, but managed to get on our first class sleeper train. The train was pretty disappointing with a hole in the floor for the...
