Blood suckers that fly

Honored by being placed atop of my ’scary creatures list’ are the flying vampires, mosquitoes. Geographically speaking, at lower altitudes mosquito populations are usually denser and as you gain in altitude the number of the little buggers flying around your head should steadily decrease. Having said that, my itinerary does include water activities… you know [...]

Sanke Bite! …now what?

Imagine yourself walking through the Kenyan grasslands… the odd tree, but most all you can see of the vast expanse is the shrub-like growth of green that stretched to the horizon…
That’s when you feel the piercing force of a puff adder’s fangs sink into your calf… no, no, your leg not your dinner walking next [...]

surprizes below, above, Everywhere!

Trekking into the wilderness anywhere will at one time or another make you stop short and think to yourself: did the ground just move…?! And I’m just going to assume that I’ll eventually do exactly that at least once in the two weeks I’ll be in the African wilderness.
kashu_parit, a Maasai local from the Loita [...]

to Eat or not to Eat.

Well, fun is to be had in trying as much as possible in the Maasai culture during our stay, but the has to be some caution as well. All this fuss over the vaccinations are making me think again about eating everythiing in sight; Typhoid is just one disease that I risk contracting if I [...]

so the vaccination deadline is… a Month ago?!

Ok, down to business on this one. Apparently for both Diphtheria and Tuberculosis vaccines are to be taken three full months before your travel into Kenya. Not exactly what you would call comforting, as I’m scheduled to go two months today… As I’ve mentioned, this is my sister’s department but we’ll see how it goes [...]

any notable concerns? of Course

Disregarding the fact that the area is dangerous in almost all aspects as the area often experiences droughts in the summer, most of the work will require the two of us to camp out in the middle of the Kenyan wilderness and though Kenya is thought to be one of the more stable African nations, [...]