Guide for an happy trip to Kenya
Kenya Sugar
Story will travel in October 2009 to Ivonne
Kenya .... I never thought of traveling to these places ... I never thought that Kenya could be beautiful, intense, magical.
Places for people.
A place of contrasts very strong emotions and inexplicable, that still make you think.
Me and my friend Stephanie for the event we chose and if we struck.
Maybe it's nostalgia for Africa??
We start with a night flight from Milan Malpensa Vernerdi 09/10/2009 to Mombasa.
Here we welcome the Staff of the Blue Bay Village is located in Watamu, accompanied .... By intense rain.
From Mombasa to reach the village by bus takes about 2 hours. Through the window we begin to see Kenya, its colors, children, life Kenyan villages.
Arriving at the Blue Bay we are immersed in a village in a camouflaged garden full of flowers, plants of all kinds, with a white beach and a sea of various shades of blue and green, which is part of a protected Marine Park.
In this period the beach is not as white as a result of algae, carried by high tides and when the tide is collected and then be thrown into the sea.
How to tell the boys of the village, being a protected area is the sea, the force of nature with its cycles to clean the beach and make it white.
Say that January is the best beach in Kenya.
On the beach there are all the Beach Boy.
Knowing the new arrivals, we expect to offer the most varied tours, safaris.
We already have our Beach Boy. Contacted last week from Italy.
In the afternoon we meet him outside the village, near the entrance.
And here .... Sugar.
Already contacts via email we had sent security, seriousness and competence.
The meeting with him confirms that. We understand that a lot of experience and speaks very well Italian.
Together we go to town for ice cream at an Italian ice cream, and to define the details of the Safari that we do.
Meanwhile, the rain stopped and the sun is back.
We confirm 3 days / 2 nights at Amboseli and Tsavo East starting on Monday morning at 6.
And a blue safari to Mangroves for Thursday.
Are actually many excursions that you could do, that should be made, (Masai Mara, Lamu, Marafra, Gede Ruins.), But with just one week we can not do everything.
With his back foot all the way to the village by making the sea, and listening to his stories.
Monday morning we are as agreed at the entrance of our village, where there with him 'Ambrogio also the driver.
To start with. It will take about two hours to arrive at the park Tsavo East, but the journey gives us so many beautiful images.
Sugar as a first step leads us to see crocodiles up close, very close .... and he deftly makes them leave the water for us to photograph them.
My friend and sugar is not well in this respect also demonstrates a very careful and considerate.
Of course there is always the magic phrase in use in Kenya, "Hakuna Matata". No problem ....
Allocated, and we enter the park, where there awaits safari, discovering the fauna and flora.
Sugar has promised us that we will see the Lions.
We see zebras, elephants, hippos, impalas, antelopes, even what he calls "gazelle giraffe, antelope water, Pharaoh, colorful birds, ostriches, Dik Dik, Buffalo, Gnu, Storks of Savannah etc.etc.
As we see he explains and details the life and habits of everyone.
The landscape is made of red soil in contrast with the blue sky and trees ombrelliferi or giant Baobab.
Here's Sugar suddenly sighted in the bushes by the roadside, a lioness.
Do not want to quit, but well see her beautiful face.
How exciting ... ..
Meanwhile behind us there is' a herd of buffalo crossing the road, are all in a row, a long line ...
We arrive at our Lodge all dusty red earth.
Sugar has booked at Voi Wildlife, in cozy.
The place is very beautiful, also has a pool and the pools where you can see at all hours of the day the animals come to drink.
In the afternoon we go out for another safari, where we will see from afar the lions and lionesses that have killed an elephant and now, after the meal, are resting.
The next morning we leave for another park Amboseli initially kilometers of red road
an infinite strip, the landscape slowly changes, is not so red.
It 'much more arid expanses then become clear and bare, few plants,
while arriving Amboseli becomes greener, and there are puddles' of the lake attended all sorts of animals that come to drink
By the eagle, the vulture is eating the remains of the meal made the Lions.
The ugly warthogs, hyenas. We will see two different types. And even giraffes, elephants ...
Suddenly there comes a radio communication a sighting of a lion and our Ambrose at full speed.
We find him asleep under a bush, indifferent goings of buses, does not want to learn to wake up.
Now reached almost sunset and we head to the tented camp that has booked Sugar, the "Kibo Safari Camp."
A wonderful location with views of Kilimanjaro, which at sunset is shown completely from view. Its snow-capped peak, which light up red, orange, pink ...
Although the weather was good, and there is cold in the evening light the fire, where we gather after dinner to chat and admire the starry African sky, the Milky Way
The next morning wake up at dawn to the last lap in Savannah before returning to Watamu.
We're almost near the exit of the park when ... .... Suddenly, we see a lioness still young we cross the street, continues and then stops and watches us ... ..
On the way back, as required Sugar, takes us on a school in a Masai village,
where we donate many clothes, toys, pens, crayons, colored.
In my eyes I still have the image of these children, their curious looks and happy ...
You enter the heart.
We share and 17 are in the village, just in time for tea and biscuits.
The next morning at 9 o'clock appointment with sugar to the beach for Safari Blue Mangrovie.Mangiamo to the coconut rice, octopus sauce, grilled swordfish, lobster and shrimp and lots of fresh fruit and delicious. All really good. Sugar in this circumstance care of everything, because everything is perfect and do not miss anything to anyone.
It 'came our last day in Kenya.
We meet with sugar and other beach boy on the beach with them and do a long walk.
It 'was a fantastic holiday and hope to return to Kenya as soon as possible to find all these wonderful places, the majesty of nature and discover new placement of my new friend Sugar, a very special guide.
I recommend if you are leaving for Kenya .... SUGAR is a certainty!
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