Kategorie: Allgemein
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Great Rift Valley
On miserable roads, recommended for 4×4 vehicles only, we drive from the Masai Mara up the mountains and then down into the Great African Rift Valley. The 1st gear is not only used for starting, the speed is often only 10-15 km/h, the shock absorbers groan, hopefully the tires do not hit a sharp stone…
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Increased burn rate
Nobody (not even banks) want to have our old 1,000 Schilling notes from the previous year. We learned that new banknotes have been in circulation in Kenya since 31 May. And 30th of September was already the last day to change. Sometimes you are forced to burn money. Seit dem 31. Mai sind in Kenia…
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World Natural Heritage Site
Nakuru is the provincial capital of the „Rift Valley“ – one of the seven provinces of Kenya. You don’t have to see the city. But the lake. Lake Nakuru together with Lake Elementaita and Lake Bogoria is an UNESCO World Heritage Site in the African Rift Valley. All three are strongly alkaline lakes and are known…
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LIONS
But another post from Nakuru: The local Lions club has donated a school bus with great PR impact. Und doch noch ein Post aus Nakuru: Hier gibt es einen Lions Club, der sehr öffentlichkeitswirksam einen Schulbus gespendet hat. PS: Oder ist das schon Sponsoring? PPS: Nein, meine Lions-Sehnsucht war noch nicht so groß, dass ich…
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Flamingos like it hot
The spectacle that we missed at the two southern lakes (Nakuru and Elementaita) now takes place at Lake Bogoria: Hundreds of thousands of flamingos. Thanks to the high alkali content, especially nutritious or even tasty algae grow here – at least if you are a flamingo. At peak times there are two million flamingos in…
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Kambi Amani
Our plan was to stay one or two nights in Nakuru, it became four. The reason was that we liked Kambi Amani (Kisuaheli for „peaceful camp“) so much. Eight fixed tents with real beds and a wonderful green grass that invites you to camp. Besides the romantic tent huts that offer shelter from the rain…
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North & south … and science
We crossed the equator several times on our route. The place to remember that the rich north is quite close to the global south. Auf unserer Route überqueren wir mehrmals den Äquator Und wo, wenn nicht hier, lässt es sich bildlich umsetzen, dass einer auf der Seite des reichen Nordens dem anderen im globalen Süden…
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Mugie Conservancy
Heading Northeast: We leave the African Rift Valley and take a last look back at an altitude of almost 2,600 metres. Auf dem Weg nach Nordosten verlassen wir den Afrikanischen Grabenbruch und werfen auf knapp 2.600 Meter Höhe einen letzten Blick zurück. After four hours drive, almost all along a beautiful tarred road, we reach…
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Sorry!
Liebe Familie und Freunde, wir haben ein paar technische Probleme beim Hochladen unserer Fotos. Momentan fotografiere ich sie vom Bildschirm ab und lade sie dann hoch. Ein Bit nach dem anderen … Die Qualität leidet. Wir auch. Dear family and friends, we have some technical problems uploading our photos. The quality suffers. So are we.
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Three beauties
Many shots without a kill: A cheetah mother with her two cubs are our hunting trophy from Mugie Conservancy – a 200-sq-km private wildlife reserve at the very western edge of the Laikipia plateau. ….. Unsere schönste Jagdbeute aus der Mugie Conservancy, einem 200 Quadratkilometer großem Naturschutzgebiet im Westen des Laikipia-Plateaus: Eine Geparden-Mutter mit ihren zwei…