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Kenya 2025

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  • Trip start
    January 6, 2025
    Gautier MoulinKenya 2025Traveler

    Welcome to Kilifi

    Jan 7–14, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Paulo, Romans friend from Anna back in Oslo sold us the beauties of Kilifi, so we went to check it out.

    Paulo has been living in Kenya for over 10 years. He now speaks Swahili and has built one of the biggest unmotorized sailing boats (called Dhow) in East Africa. The Mussafir. As he gave us a very warm introduction to Kilifi we wanted to start the FindPingouin on this note.

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    Mombasa to Nairobi by 🚂

    January 28, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    We took the new railway from Mombasa to Nairobi going though the Tsavo national park. We saw hundreds of elephants !! 🐘but from the train window it didn’t look great so you’ll have to believe us.

    Then we spent a bit of time visiting the big city of Nairobi and learning about Kenya at the museum.    Read more

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    Masai Mara 🦒

    January 29, 2025 ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Welcome to the Savana - where what ever you imagined Kenya was, it actually is.

    2 days doing “game drives” in those custom made Land Cruiser with a pop up roof. The adventure was amazing, the guide was a pro at finding the animals hidding.

    So here is a list of what we remembered seeing : Lion, impala, zebra, elephant, giraffe, wild beast, hyena, jackal, antilope, buffalo, oryx, Tsavo cat, wild boar (pumba), ostrich, grey crowned crane, eagle, vulture, marabou stork, baboon.

    Fun fact: here lions don’t know that humans are tasty. So if ever one was to bite a human they would remove the all group from the park. In Tsavo national park (est of the country) the lions used to eat the workers building the railway in the 19th century, they haven’t eaten anyone for a long time but still show aggressive behavior there - so everyone has to stick in the cars ! No in Masai Mara - not that we tried confirmed this.

    Masai Mara is known for 2 things:
    1- the wild beat migration happening around summer (so we didn’t see it), where a looooot of big wild cows are crossing the rivers full of crocodiles to go from Tanzania to Kenya.
    2- the Masai people. Nomad indigenous that kept their traditions, dressed in red caps. They move around to feed their cow of which they also feed on their blood. Masai man seduce their women by being the guy that jumps the highest - still today for some even if of course traditions are fading.    Read more

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    Hell’s gate, where Mufasa died 🦁

    February 1, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Welcome to Naivasha ! A lake 2 hours from Nairobi surrounded by a lot of natural parks.

    Amongst them, Hell’s gate. The park has no predators so we were able to cycle through the park between the giraffes and the zebras. Although there are no lions, these are the landscapes that inspired the Lion King !
    Right next to the park some georges where our Masai guide took us.
    Baboon cliff felt like a movie where all the animals live next to one another. The reason is that because baboon live there all other animals know baboons will make a lot of noise and scare off the predators. We got a mix of zebra, baboons, antipopes, warthogs, some sort of cool rat.

    We stayed right by the lake and we were lucky to see A LOT of wildlife. The lake has mangoose, beavers, bad ass birds and hippo. During the night when hippo ventures away from water, an electrical fence is protecting us. After all, they often attack humans to protect their territory. Otherwise plenty of birds including this Marabou Stork that looks and sounds exactly like a dinosaur.    Read more

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    Mount Kenya 🗻

    February 5, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    2nd tallest mountain in Africa. Mount Kenya is a 5200m high volcano.

    We stayed in Nanyuki which is somehow a bit of a food hot spot.

    After a 15km motorbike drive up to 3300m, we hiked to get a closer view.
    The hike brought us to 4100m, which reminded us our Peru days where we missed oxygen. Last bit was very hard ! Our moto bike was also happy to head down as she was struggling just as much as we were.

    And of course, no day in Kenya is complete without seeing a couple Zebra hanging around the park.    Read more

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    Nairobi national park 🦏

    February 7, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    Back to Nairobi for a night out and the national park before heading back Est.

    Out of all the animals we wanted to see during our safaris we were still missing a key one : Rhinos !
    (Actually we are also missing cheetah and leopard but they are very very unlikely to see)
    Nairobi National Park is right by the city. The park is quite huge still and like all parks is open with a corridor at the south to allow animals to migrate to other national parks. Curious to see all those animals deciding to live a bit closer to the big city.

    Meeting the rhinos was crazy. Huge animal, even in our car we felt very small.    Read more

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    Kilimonjaro 🎵🗻

    February 8, 2025 in Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Probably the highlight of this trip - seeing Kilimanjaro.

    We were very lucky to be able to see both Kilimanjaro and Mont Kenya without clouds. Apparently that’s rare.

    As Kilimanjaro is a stand alone mountain you really feel the 5 895m high mountain standing above you. Somehow it fills up the entire sky in front of you. And as you drive away from it feels like it’s getting bigger and bigger. Hard to explain.

    We watched it from the amazing comfort of a camp where we had a private chef preparing amazing food.

    The road there was a bit ‘cursed’ as on the way there we had a popped tire in the Matatu (their collective bus you grand on the side of roads) and a punctured tires on the way back which meant we almost missed our train.    Read more

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