Destination: Kenya
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Thu, 14 Jun 2007 | By scholarships | Views [15394]
If you've ever imagined what it's like to be a video documentary
filmmaker, on the road in remote parts of the world, giving something back to a community in need, then the video documentary scholarship is your opportunity to live and film that
dream.... Read more >
Tags: travel scholarship, video documentary scholarship, kenya, video, documentary, 2007, world nomads
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 | By scholarships | Views [4206] | Video
Hidden Potential , by Cesar Salmeron "One thing is for sure – it has made me realise that the
only way to make other people aware of the world outside their own
front yard, is a device you carry on your shoulder with a big red
button that ... Read more >
Tags: travel scholarship, video, documentary, world nomads, travel documentary, cesar salmeron, kenya
Wed, 10 Sep 2008 | By positive_footprints | Views [1749] | Comments [2] | Video
" Kenya, 35 million people, half of which are still in school uniform..15 million under the age of 12...if you aint got any qualifications, you aint got a hope in hell of getting a job" Clive Dougherty, World Expeditions Leader, Kenya ... Read more >
Tags: kenya, travel, travel documentary, world nomads, world expeditions, nat geo adventure, adventure travel, volunteer travel, community travel, community projects
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 | By miss_tanzania | Views [1255]
The first leg of my overland trip finished in Nairobi. Before we got to Nairobi though we did the Masai Mara, which surpassed all my expectations. Maybe because we saw 4 of the big 5 in the first morning game drive we did. Test - which are the animals ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [1066] | Comments [1]
ADP: As someone who managed to learn depressively little about international geography during my formative years, I barely knew that Kenya had a coastline, let alone a gleaming ribbon of icing white sand and its own rhinestone speckled stretch of Indian ... Read more >
Tags: People
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | By angeline | Views [850] | Comments [2]
the gorillas. wow. definately one of the most amazing experiences of my life to date. if you've seen the movie gorillas in the mist then you kinda know a bit of what rwanda looks like, but let me tell you when you get there and you see the volcanoes ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 | By murray_wilson | Views [837] | Comments [3]
After a long and very bumpy jouney we arrived in the Masai Mara. On our way to the Kicheche camp we encountered a Cheetah, just lazing under a tree. She let us get very close and was just stunning. After that the game watching was looking good. The ... Read more >
Tags: kenya
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 | By hnmenk | Views [778]
Transportation around africa is a completely unique adventure -- and often, we spend an entire day just getting from one place to another. Here are some new modes of transportation that we've encountered over the past week: Matatu - These are ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 | By angeline | Views [765]
not much has really been happening lately, just working and going out and all that jazz, so i thought i'd give a little insight into how much things cost here. 700ml bottle of safari vodka - 300shillings, about $5 pair of beaded thongs - 300shillings ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 | By esperanto_films | Views [764] | Comments [1]
Day 1:
After arriving in Nairobi and being introduced to the hustle and bustle, fumes and the melody of car horns, I soon realised that this trip was going to be an adventure. On the same night we were briefed on the actual project and got to meet ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [658] | Comments [1]
When the girls and I first began to discuss the itinerary for our year around the world, there were certain locations that each of us just had to visit and specific goals we felt compelled to achieve. For Amanda, it was perfecting her Spanish in Peru;... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 | By angeline | Views [638] | Comments [4]
jambo, jambo kenya! habari gani! mzuri sana! I have that song in my head everywhere I go these days! its a song that the kids sing, every kid knows it and will sing it till the cows come home! its awesome. my how things have changed in the course of ... Read more >
Tags: People
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 | By abroaderview | Views [631] | Video
Volunteer Abroad in Kenya: Nairobi, Mombasa, Rift Valley, Makuyu Volunteering Opportunities
Due
to a dramatic improvement in the political situation in Kenya that has
brought calm and peace to the country, ... Read more >
Tags: volunteer, kenya, nairobi, mombasa, rift, valley, makuyu, africa, volunteering
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [598] | Comments [2]
I found love at an unexpected place: Sister Freda’s Hospital outside of Kitale, Kenya. Sister Freda is a native Kenyan, mother of four and registered nurse. She constructed a clinic in this rural area to help the masses of displaced tribe members who ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [574]
When you’re an obvious stranger in a strange land, or in our case, a bustling pastoral community in Western Kenya, it’s bound to attract some attention – particularly if you’re of the paler skinned variety as we are. Every time we venture outside the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 1 Dec 2007 | By shantitour | Views [566]
Dec 1 Today we went shopping in Karen, Kenya. I needed to get another piece of luggage as I have run out of room!!! I also found a travel book on Seychelles dor a mere 2950 ks,around $40 us....so I check out and then they take me to the service desk, ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Thu, 2 Nov 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [505]
After Sister Freda gave us a tour of her rural clinic, she led us past her own small house (one of the few I’d seen with running water and a western-style toilet) to one of most enchanting parts of her property: the tropical fruit grove.
Pushing past ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 | By hnmenk | Views [496] | Comments [2]
So Shabbat worked out really nicely. We set our tent up - and somehow rigged up our new (read - new to us but defintely used by someone before) tarp as a fly. We were glad to have it cause it rained most of friday night and we stayed dry! Sat ... Read more >
Tags: Lost!
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [476]
ADP: We seem to have a little problem with the animals of the world stealing our stuff. Well, more accurately, Holly's stuff. First there was the kinkachu in the Amazon that bit holes through her wallet and nearly made off with her shiny new camera. ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [475]
When Holly, Amanda and I decided to take an entire year off from the ‘real world’ to globetrot together, we realized it was a huge commitment. We knew from experience that we were excellent travel buddies, but jetting off for a week’s vacation to escape ... Read more >
Tags: Laughter
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [445]
Like most of our fellow Village Volunteers, Amanda, Holly and I jumped at the chance to sign up for an affordable 1-day safari organized by one of the in-country coordinators, and a member of the Maasai tribe, Emmanuel. Not only would we be guided through ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Thu, 1 Nov 2007 | By miss_tanzania | Views [430]
That is what I think I did the most during my week in Mombasa, eat! The food here, both local and east african is so good, and the fact that all the meat is halaal is a bonus even for an indifferent meat eater like me! We also had quite a few friends ... Read more >
Tags: adventures
Mon, 4 Dec 2006 | By hollycassandra | Views [412]
While we thought the safari would be the highlight of our brief visit to the land of the Maasai, we soon discovered that our most exciting adventure had yet to come. Since we only had one more day to spend with Emmanuel before heading back to Nairobi, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Mon, 6 Aug 2007 | By angeline | Views [402] | Comments [3]
oh my goodness. welcome to kenya. and what a welcome its been. kenya is so different from south africa and i kinda knew that but shit, it hit me when i got here. there are no road rules, you could swim in the potholes, i nearly got ran over by a matutu ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 | By hnmenk | Views [371] | Comments [2]
We arrived in Kericho a couple of hours ago. It's a community that basically revolves around these huge tea plantations. It's absolutely beautiful ... imagine rolling hills of finely manicured tea fields as far as you can see. We're camping at a place ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
