Kenya and Tanzania 2024
by sam on 09/14/2024Last year my brother and sister-in-law moved to Nairobi, and were planning a long enough stay that I could actually go and visit. Which is what I did this summer, spending about a week with them and then jumping onto a G Adventures trip in Tanzania. The week with my family was nice and relaxing, we got to spend some time together, and I went to a few museums and the Giraffe sanctuary, and we ate a lot of good food. Then the tour…
This was my eighth tour with G, and it was…not the best. The other travelers were great, and we saw a lot of great stuff, but the organization was lacking compared to other trips. Half the group (not me!) got food poisoning and the lack of medical care for that as well as some other medical issues that cropped up was concerning. Then we got to Zanzibar, where we were supposed to stay at a lovely resort, only to learn upon arrival that the resort had BURNED DOWN two weeks before we got there. The substitute accommodations were, quite frankly, terrible. But at least some of us bonded over our shared disappointment.
But in any event, I did of course take about 6,000 photos over the course of the trip, and here were the highlights. Broadly, I started in Nairobi as noted above, then we went to Mto Wa Mbu (aka mosquito lake!) to tour a banana farm and some local tribal communities. Then the safari began with an afternoon in Lake Manyara, followed by two days in the Serengeti (including an early morning balloon ride!) and a day at the Ngorogoro crater, followed by a visit to a Masai village where G helps sponsor a clean cookstove project. Then we flew to Zanzibar, where we spent a day in Stone Town followed by time at the (ahem) beach, where we did some snorkeling and (not pictured) I drank a lot of tequila.
