​User Reviews – Kenya

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CedricVandermeulen   –  
Thailand TH
Visited: March 2011 Reviewed: Aug 22, 2011

Email CedricVandermeulen  |  35-50 years of age

Overall rating
5/5

Fantastic scenery, great wildlife - the only reason it is not 5-star is that sometimes, particularly in the more popular parks, things are bit crowded.

Ricardo Guler Visited: July 2007 Reviewed: Aug 22, 2011

Amazing and magic experience. Best place visited ever...
Overall rating
5/5

The most incredible trip to a very special part of this world. It is an encounter with the basics of humanity and the magical beauty of nature...
We have learned that people can be happy with very little material things and that definitily we have too much of everything and most of the time it is hard to reach peace of mind and joy.
Also realised that animals in their habitat behave better than human beings....
The most frightening experience is driving in Kenya roads...

Doede Boomsma   –  
Netherlands NL
Visited: July 2007 Reviewed: Aug 22, 2011

20-35 years of age

Comfortable bare-bones group-travel through Kenya
Overall rating
5/5

The wildlife flourished in 2007, enough rain and lots of sun. We got to see many (bigger) animals such as the Big 5. Accommodations were mostly basic and thus fine. Travel by truck with nice horse-shoe shaped seat plan, so you could talk to everyone all the time. Great fun! The guide was very friendly, as the cook was good. The guide knew a lot (had been to Kenya couple of times). We got to photograph a lot of animals and do some nice hikings. Also time to visit villages, towns and enjoy where ever we came.

The Blue Boy   –  
United Kingdom UK
Visited: November 2007 Reviewed: Aug 23, 2011

Email The Blue Boy  |  35-50 years of age

Overall rating
5/5

Kenya is a real land of suprises. Most people don't know about the Marine Reserve just off Bamburi beach. A must if you snorkel!

ArtsySF © ~ Marjie Visited: December 1996 Reviewed: Aug 24, 2011

Overall rating
5/5

We loved it!

Chris Halliwell Visited: July 2009 Reviewed: Aug 25, 2011

Overall rating
5/5

Beautiful settings and wonderful to see animals in their natural habitat. The landscape is a wonderful red, absolutely beautiful.

K-pture   –  
Belgium BE
Visited: July 2007 Reviewed: Aug 26, 2011

20-35 years of age

Overall rating
5/5

Amazingly wild...

Cristina Sbu Visited: December 2009 Reviewed: Aug 28, 2011

A Place to go!
Overall rating
5/5

it's a place where everyone should go. You live in close contact with nature, you sleep in the middle of the park and when you wake up in the morning you realize you're in a kind of paradise. The food, the transportation and the guide are really ok... and also the weather (I went there on december) was ok.
A place to go!

majedphotos   –  
Kuwait KW
Visited: March 2011 Reviewed: Aug 29, 2011

20-35 years of age

The dream became reality
Overall rating
5/5

i was always dream to see what i am watching in national geographic channel in real not behind the TV and after you visit Kenya your heart will not come back with you to your home until now i went there 5 times and hope when ever there is a chance i will visit Kenya again and again to view some of my photos please visit majedphotos.com

Sallyrango   –  
United Kingdom UK
Visited: December 2010 Reviewed: Aug 29, 2011

Email Sallyrango  |  50-65 years of age

Kenya - a great safari experience, scenery, wildlife, people, - get off the beaten track
Overall rating
5/5

Kenya had changed a great deal when we returned after a 25 year gap. We heard that Masai Mara and Ambosili have become very crowded, so instead we headed north of Nairobi to the hills around Nyeri. It proved to be a fantastic choice. We stayed in a new lodge called Rhino Watch and they arranged the two week safari of our choice. All the staff are local Kenyans and they really know what they are doing. The lodge is owned by a German guy who arranges photo and film shoots, so he knows all the best places to go. He is married to a Kenyan lady and her family run the lodge and drive the cars. There were just 4 of us travelling in a 4 wheel drive with an expert guide and driver called Moses. We stayed in a luxury tent with all mod cons. Aberdare National Park has fantastic lush green scenery, great views of elephants, buffalo, monkeys and sometimes leopards, and we never saw another car. Solio Game Reserve has more white rhinos than I have ever seen before, hundreds and hundreds, and we saw lions and a leopard, and Ol Pejeta Game Reserve turned out to be fantastic for Lions, Giraffes and Cheetahs and more Elephants. These game reserves are all nearby and uncrowded. We also went on a walk with giraffes. It could be pretty cold up there in the mornings and evenings. The food in Rhino Watch was amazing, freshly cooked for us on our return and huge amounts. Another highlight was staying on Lake Baringo at Roberts Camp, where hippos come out of the water at night and sleep right by the huts. This was a great area for birds, with thousands of flamingos on Lake Begoria. Nakuru Game Park was much more crowded, but we got incredibly close to lions there - one group was asleep in a tree near the road, and another group were asleep under the picnic tables. We had these lions to ourselves. We also got a good view of a hippo in the lake with pelicans and flamingos. The weather was warmer once we left the highlands. In Nairobi we visted the Giraffe Centre where you can stroke wild giraffes, and Sheldricks Elephant Orphanage, which rescues baby elephants. Both well worth a visit. We were so impressed by this trip that we have booked to go back again next year. A small, intimate safari experience - comfortable but not luxurious, with the emphasis on hours and hours of game viewing. Ideal for photographers and real wildlife enthusiasts, not so good for people wanting a "holiday". We were usually up and out by 6.30am and not back until 7pm or later. We also had a lot of interraction with the local community, and I took a suitcase full of clothes out to an orphanage where we went and met the kids.

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