Kenya - what a truly amazing part of the world! Its without a doubt the most beautiful place i have ever seen and am ever likely to see. My trip to Kenya was my honeymoon - 2 weeks in October 2008, the greatest 2 weeks of my life - both because of my wife, and the location. People The Kenyan people were just fantastic wherever we went - and we certainly went to a few! Everybody seemed happy and relaxed and always keen to share their local and wildlife knowledge with you. Also despite the level of poverty there, it never felt as though people were hassling you for money - you met sellers of products on many roads for example, but it rarley ...  Read the complete review

I’ve told you a lot about the interesting and nice touristy things to do – Nairobi and Mombassa are both equally interesting and beautiful places to visit and the Maasai Mara National Park is an experience you have to take – but I want to tell you something now of the experiences outside of these areas. Of the real Kenya without the gloss – warts and all – and maybe I’ll write some other time of the games drives in the Mara, but we’ll see… **A BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY** The whole purpose of my visit to Kenya was work related – my antics on holiday only came about because if I’m owed holiday I may as ...  Read the complete review

We were undecided as to where to go for our honeymoon but we finally decided upon was Kenya. After browsing various brochures we finally decided upon one particular package deal. It involved one night in Nairobi, six nights on safari, then seven nights on the Kenya coast. The flight was just over 8 hours and was fine and we arrived in Nairobi as per our schedule. We arrived at our hotel for the night, The Mayfair Court hotel. The facilities were lovely but the rooms not great. We had the afternoon free to explore the town. A group of people went to a restaurant called "Carnivores". Apparently this is worth a visit. It serves mainly meat as ...  Read the complete review

Around 5 years ago now I accompanied a school trip to Kenya on a mission to find out about the country and it's people. We avoided the usual tourist areas of the coastal resorts and journeyed North of Nairobi to do a tour of the lakes ending with few days stay at the Marich pass field centre. The 10 day tour gave me many wonderful experiences and I couldn't write about all of them. I will instead write about the most significant experiences which may be of interest to the potential traveller... Curio shops: There are hundreds of these. Strike that - thousands. The traders working in these shops, particularly the ones located on tourist ...  Read the complete review

I visited Kenya about three years ago, staying in a typical 4 star hotel on the beach near Mombassa. It is a fabulous holiday resort for sun and warm sea (even though the locals have killed off all the coral). But be prepared for some unusual experiences.... For example, every evening our Hotel dining room served a three course buffet dinner with a selection of large cakes to slice and eat....no matter what how they were decorated in coloured icing, they contained exactly the same internal composition of sponge cake with butter cream filling ! Chips were served with every single meal but were named against a wide range of potato delicacies such as duchess ...  Read the complete review