The Durhams go to Africa

This is the blogspot for the Durham's trip to Africa in fall 2006. We are taking an overland trip to east Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and possibly, Rwanda or Congo. Some highlights from the trip: the Rift Valley, Mountain gorillas, Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, rafting the Nile and the island of Zanzibar.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

We are here!

After about 30 hours of travel, we finally arrived in Kenya yesterday about 9pm local time (which is about 2pm EST). Our transfer bus at the airport was waiting and we had no problems getting our visas and getting into the country. Everyone is very nice and we've met a few other people (Aussies, Irish and one other American woman who has been living and working in Nigeria) who will be travelling with us. We had a beer at the bar last night and talked it up with some of the Kenyans. The conversation was friendly, but did tend to get political. They don't seem to think much of Bush, although they "like Americans." They are party people here and the music was going on long after we crashed. By the time we laid down in bed, we'd been up for about 36 hours. I wish I could say we slept well, but we have plenty of time for that. I guess when we get TIRED ENOUGH, we will fall asleep, right? We had an egg and a good coffee today and are laying low at the campground for the day. The tour leaves tomorrow morning at 9am. We'll post more from the road. Oh, and our GPS coordinates: S 1 degree 21.321' E 36 degrees 45.671'. Elevation 5889 feet. And it's chilly. Love from Africa!

4 Comments:

At 7:09 PM, Blogger Agape In Action said...

Glad you're there and safe. Take lots of pictures (like I had to say that!)

 
At 7:11 PM, Blogger Agape In Action said...

I'm SO glad my "36 hours up" days are (temporarily!) over... and I just realized that "we" had already left a comment on here earlier, so I guess that's about all I had to say! TOH...

 
At 11:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad you guys are there. Can't wait to here all the stories!

Miss you Heidi..Elaine

 
At 6:50 AM, Blogger Heidi Durham said...

TOH - At least our long days have been either fun or on the way to fun! Hope all is good with you in ANOTHER third world country. Miss yoU!

 

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