Rafting the Nile

This trip just gets better every day… now we’re scheduled to head out to the African continent a week earlier – I’m guessing around he 7th, but the plane tickets are yet to be booked – to spend some time across the Ugandan border. There we’ll be hitting the currents of the Nile while we [...]

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 [...]

Hep B ~ not necessary but… it’s for me

OK, there’s been some hype as to the prevalence of Hepatitis B in Kenya on the blog recently, and I want to share what I know… Hep B is transmitted through blood/bodily fluids. I expect to be doing as the Maasai do, and well, blood is on the menu.
Throughout their history, the Maasai have drank [...]

New plans!

Great news! Instead of spending only a week with the Maasai as I thought, it turns out I’ll be flying in on the 14th – not the 25th – and will be spending an extra week before the Maasai portion of the trip on a reserve*, where we’ll be getting into way more stuff!
The plans [...]

visa, anyone?

NOPE! Turns out that Canadians 16 and under DON’T need to worry about entry visas. All we’ve got to worry about is keeping our vaccinations to-date, have an itinerary of our trip ready upon arrival at Nairobi, and get a visitor’s pass at the airport.
There’s a lot of worry out of the way early, but [...]

getting Hungry?

http://www.foodbycountry.com/Kazakhstan-to-South-Africa/Kenya.html

Extra! a tweet in the Maasai itself

This is what all this work I’ve been putting in to this stuff is for! I’ve got
kashu_parit,
a Maasai living in the Loita region of the Maasailand in remote southern Kenya as a follower on twitter, and we’ve been exchanging tweets for a few days now, and I’ve got his consent to include him in my [...]

the TAC gallery

here’s a link to more info on the gallery that started all of this for me…
if you ever get a chance to go and see it, those are the guys we’ll be staying with.
…and I just found more of his stuff on the web: HERE.

lights, camera, action

Just in: on October 10th & 11th ‘10 will be the ‘Big Thoughts on the Great Wall’ event just outside of Beijing and we’re presenting!!!
With this concrete, it’s official that we will be making a movie documentary of the trip which will be presented at the above conference. I guess its time to take another [...]

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, [...]