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| Waiting for our flight in the Accra airpor |
After leaving Ghana on Saturday morning, (including a few very tearful good-byes to my Ghana 6 teammates) Kristina and I were now bound for Nairobi, Kenya. This would be the last leg of our African Adventure - a 5 day Kenyan safari.
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| Sampling Ethiopian beer in Addis Ababa |
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| In Addis Ababa for a short layover |
After a long flight, which included a 3 hour time difference between Kenya and Ghana, our plane touched down at 1:00 AM. There to meet us was Martin, our tour organizer from African Veterans safari, who shuffled the two of us, tired and jetlagged, into a van and drove us to our hotel for the night.
We knew when we booked the hotel that we would only be staying for a few hours so luxury was not a necessity. It was already after 2 AM when we arrived at the hotel and our tour was due to leave at 8 AM. However, I'm not sure that either Kristina or I fully expected what awaited us at the Comfort Hotel in Nairobi. The room was very basic, no air conditioning and no screens on the windows. Oh well, this was supposed to be an adventure after all! We each chose one of the single beds, wedged our suitcases up tight against the door, opened the window to let in some fresh air, put in ear plugs to drown out the sounds of Nairobi traffic and pulled the mosquito netting around us. We were too tired to care and it seemed safe enough, after all.
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| I had never slept in mosquito netting before |
Breakfast the next morning in the hotel was surpisingly satisfying. They even had really brewed coffee. Not great brewed coffee - but brewed coffee all the same. At 8 AM on the dot, the phone in our hotel room rang. Martin was downstairs and our safari was about to begin!
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