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East Africa Tour Part 5 – Nairobi to Mombasa

Our final port of call on our African adventure would be by the Indian Ocean. We chose the train as our way of getting there. Nairobi to Mombasa Train As part of their belt & road policy, the Chinese have built a wonderful railway line from capital to coast. It features three passenger trains a […]

East Africa Tour Part 4 – Nairobi, Kenya

Having returned to Lusaka by bus, we flew Kenya Airways via Harare to the Kenyan capital. The airport was unusually surrounded by national park land with huge fences keeping rhinos off the runway. We would be staying two nights at the wonderful Hobb House in the north of the city, 30-minutes by our pre-booked taxi […]

East African Adventure

I am just back from 17-days in the east of Africa. It was a wonderful trip in very hospitable lands. It started with a flight change from Heathrow (ended up flying Rwandair to Lusaka via Kigali instead of via Nairobi with Kenya Airways), involved an aborted train journey (Lusaka to Livingstone 11-hours late, awful compartment/rabbit […]