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Nairobi, Giraffe Manor and Home
In the last leg of our tour, we fly from Maasai Mara to Nairobi. Our tour company, Micato Safaris, supports a student center in Nairobi’s Mukuru slum and we head straight there from the airport. The 700,000 people in Mukuru are mostly living in corrugated iron shacks, with no electricity or running water. The student…
Maasai Mara
Maasai Mara, the last park on our itinerary, turns out to be the land of big cats. We know our niece Mara would love “the Mara,” as this beautiful park is called. It is the land of the Lion King and the great migration that meets the Serengeti on the Tanzania border. Coming off of…
Loisaba Conservancy
Our next stop is Loisaba, a conservancy in Laikipia County. Loisaba was an enormous cattle ranch owned by an Italian family until the 1970s. At that time the Nature Conservancy leased the land and transitioned it to a conservancy. The idea is that following a fifty year lease it will be turned over to the…
Tsavo West National Park
We spend one night at the lovely Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi and depart early the next morning. In our jet-lagged haze, Nairobi is a blur, though I recall eating popcorn and cheese late at night, with Jacob in our hotel room. We take a 45-minute plane ride from Nairobi, with a pit stop at…
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