Jami & Aaron's Travels

Our fourth and last safari was to Ngorongoro Crater, a large caldera near the Serengeti. Once again, although we had already seen many of the animals before, it was great to see them in a different environment. The crater itself is huge, far bigger than we expected. Its sheer rock faces rise 2,000 feet above […]

After Amboseli we headed down to Tanzania, our second country in Africa. The border was completely chaotic, with little instruction on where to go, nothing to keep anyone from walking across, and too many Masai nicknack sellers to count. The aggressive Masai pushers (for lack of a better term) were annoying throughout Kenya. They didn’t […]

The most unique/different/hair-raising form of transportation in East Africa was not the puddle jumper plane or the budget safari vans kept operating through duct tape and hammering (true story). It was instead the small vans operating as public transit. In Kenya they are called “Matatus”; in Tanzania they are “dala-dalas”; anywhere in the US they’d […]

While we had one, really two safaris down, where we had seen them all: Masaai Mara and Lake Nakuru, we still had an appetite to see these beautiful creatures in new environments. As we were mapping out our plans and our route down from Kenya to Tanzania, we thought Amboseli was a perfect gateway.   […]

Coming back from Volunteering and back to Nairobi, we were excited to get away just 2 hour drive to the relaxing and low-key spot of Lake Naivasha, which also offered a lot of fun activities for us to do. We booked 3 nights at the highly recommended Fisherman’s Camp campground. At arrival we were excited […]

When planning where we wanted to go on this “trip of a lifetime,” I figured we couldn’t see the world without seeing Africa. Once I convinced Aaron of that, which wasn’t too hard, I realized I knew basically nothing of this continent. What I did know was 1) I had to go on at least […]

While I had made a quick summary previously of the culture we experienced in Africa, I still HAD to dedicate a whole post on the friendly and laid back people that met, in fact lived with for a short amount of time. The Maasai people are found throughout Kenya and Tanzania mostly. They are pastoralists […]

Africa was an experience I will always remember. It was much different than our first leg in Europe having spent two months across 10 countries, in Africa across 5 weeks, we only traveled to two. Africa is a continent with so much diversity and we traveled to just two countries: Kenya and Tanzania, which are […]