Good friends Charles and Nerisa decided that before Andrew and I got too deep into our safari, and since our colleagues had not all arrived yet, we would have a private day out, over near the Ngong Hills. Now anyone familiar with Kenya and the literature about the country has heard of the Ngong Hills, …
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Our Private Kenya (1): Paradise Lost Park and the Kenyan Freedom Fighters
One of the pleasures of travel is the unexpected, and my time in Kenya provided me with plenty of opportunities to see and learn about things I had never known about before. And to go to places that I didn’t even know existed. That delightful situation continued with the recent safari, written about in some …
The FOGs Safari: Mt. Kenya National Park
Although Mt. Kenya was given a little attention in the Flat Stanley series, like many of the other places visited on the FOGs Safari, there’s more to say. First of all, even though Mt. Kilimanjaro is more famous, for Kenyans their own mountain seems to be the one they talk about the most (and Mt. Kilimanjaro …
Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (14): At the Equator and Saying Good-by
Finding yourself at the Equator certainly seems an appropriate way to wrap up a safari, so here are three of us, Mr. Geoffrey, Mr. Andrew, and Mr. Charles, basking in the equatorial sun with Stanley somewhere around Eldorat in Western Kenya, on our way back to Nairobi. After three weeks together, it’s time to say …
Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (13): The Elephant Orphanage
Flat Stanley had some wonderful times in Africa, but it seems the Giraffe Center (described last time) and the Elephant Orphanage made him the happiest. Yet describing the elephant orphanage is a real challenge because I become very emotional thinking about how the elephants were orphaned, and what wonderful work the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is doing …
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