Lake Nakuru
I mentioned the Carnation Hotel in the last post cos when we got off the matatu from Lake Bogoria at about 9pm we got chased by about 7 street kids sniffing glue. We had a to get a taxi to the hotel around the corner! When we reached the hotel there were all these young women lurking around the entrance. "Safest" place in Nakuru. Ha!
We went to Lake Nakuru National Park the next day which was nice. A big lake, lots of animals including flamingoes, rhinos, and the regular gazelles and zebras.
This place was nothing compared to Lake Borgoria, but it was nice. A rhino came really close to our van so that was cool.
We decided that we couldn't go back to the Carnation Hotel so we ended up at the Tropical Lodge which the LP recommends and where we were going to go before Chris's friend told us otherwise.
The Tropical Lodge was clean, with comfortable beds and about a quarter of the price of the Carnation Hotel. The streets actually had pavements and there were no streetkids sniffing glue lurking around outside. In fact, the streets felt so safe, it was like we were in a different city. I can't believe we spent two nights at that dodgy hotel!
At the Tropical, I started talking to the guy behind the desk Joseph, who I swear was probably the most genuine guy I met in Kenya (Peter the intern now comes a close second). He didn't have any hidden agendas, he wasn't trying to pick us up, he wasn't trying to make us help him go to Australia or wherever, he was nice to us cos he was actually nice. Hard to find in a place like Kenya.
The next day Joe and his friend George took us to the Menegai crater - an old volcanic crater that is seriously HUGE. It's no longer volcanic, even though at one stage we saw some smoke at the bottom and got excited - turned out it was just someone cooking :)
We climbed - well actually slid on our bottoms - down the side of the crater. That wasn't too much of a problem, what I was worried about was getting back up. We were sliding our way down and suddenly we saw the rains making their way towards us, so we had to head up again before the dust turned to mud and we got really stuck.
God, that was a tough climb, I tell you what. I appreciate that I'm totally unfit, and the fact that I'm short doesn't help, but I was grabbing onto tufts of grass for dear life, which wasn't entirely comforting...
Beautiful place though, breathtaking.
We went to Lake Nakuru National Park the next day which was nice. A big lake, lots of animals including flamingoes, rhinos, and the regular gazelles and zebras.
This place was nothing compared to Lake Borgoria, but it was nice. A rhino came really close to our van so that was cool.
We decided that we couldn't go back to the Carnation Hotel so we ended up at the Tropical Lodge which the LP recommends and where we were going to go before Chris's friend told us otherwise.
The Tropical Lodge was clean, with comfortable beds and about a quarter of the price of the Carnation Hotel. The streets actually had pavements and there were no streetkids sniffing glue lurking around outside. In fact, the streets felt so safe, it was like we were in a different city. I can't believe we spent two nights at that dodgy hotel!
At the Tropical, I started talking to the guy behind the desk Joseph, who I swear was probably the most genuine guy I met in Kenya (Peter the intern now comes a close second). He didn't have any hidden agendas, he wasn't trying to pick us up, he wasn't trying to make us help him go to Australia or wherever, he was nice to us cos he was actually nice. Hard to find in a place like Kenya.
The next day Joe and his friend George took us to the Menegai crater - an old volcanic crater that is seriously HUGE. It's no longer volcanic, even though at one stage we saw some smoke at the bottom and got excited - turned out it was just someone cooking :)
We climbed - well actually slid on our bottoms - down the side of the crater. That wasn't too much of a problem, what I was worried about was getting back up. We were sliding our way down and suddenly we saw the rains making their way towards us, so we had to head up again before the dust turned to mud and we got really stuck.
God, that was a tough climb, I tell you what. I appreciate that I'm totally unfit, and the fact that I'm short doesn't help, but I was grabbing onto tufts of grass for dear life, which wasn't entirely comforting...
Beautiful place though, breathtaking.
posted by Sneha at 4:57 pm
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