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A six pack cooler box to take to the beach and a wet bag to hold your cozzies, wet towels and other damp paraphenalia Cotton all the way as the humidity can be debilitating a facial spritz to keep you coolPanado or other pain medication becuase the resort shops are ridiculously expensive.a 50+ sun protection cream
If you are planning on getting a Visa on arrival in Kenya it makes sense to print out the visa application from before you go. Sometimes certain flights to Kenya do not always have forms on the aircraft and if they do can easily run out of them. Places like Nairobi airport can be chaotic at the best of times with irritable passengers scrambling for visa forms and/or pens. So just go to Visa and print off the form.
I have a hard lockable case on wheels and a day/camera bag for birdwatching. I found jeans, trainers and a loose T shirt normal wear.... no smart clothes, you are going to get dusty and sweaty. No shorts, you get bitten at night, long sleeves to protect from the Equatorial sun. Definitely a hat. Roll up plastic poncho if you are planning for the long and short rains. Mosquito repellant a must for safari. You get nets for the beds at night, but they also bite during the day (different species). There isn't malaria in Nairobi, but at the coast and up country there definitely is. UPDATE: as more malaria infected people travel to Nairobi, the mosquitos become infected and pass it on. Malaria is on the increase in Nairobi. Get Malarone, Larium or whatever your doctor recommends as malaria prevention. Continue taking it when you get home for the prescribed amount of time.You can get any...
Apart from the obvious such as " Don't forget the extra memory cards (In 8 days of safari I took over 2000 pics) Batteries and the charger, another thing that is a must to bring along for those using a DSLR and multiple lenses is some of those plastic freezer bags, to wrap up your lenses when you're not using them. Amboseli NP is a killer for dust and the others are not much better, so these bags keep most of it away from the inside of the camera (sensor) and off the lenses themselves. I now use a DSLR and have as the longest lens a Canon 18-200mm.After testing with my cat in the garden and my neighbours Alsatian over the back wall, I realised that if an animal, even the size of an elephant, was further than 20 metres away it was going to be useless. So I hired a 100-400 mm lens and took that with me as well. Most of the pics here on these Kenya pages are taken with it (and still I've...
Travel to most African countries requires a yellow fever vaccination. It's important to get the shot in advance if you are heading for a short trip. The Vaccine takes around 10 days to work so no country will let you back under that period.
A soft sided bag (10 kgs) and hand luggage - Long sleeve shirt to protect from cold weather or sun- Shorts- T-Shirts- Cotton pants- Fleece or sweater (a jacket if you travel Jun-Sep - It does get quite cold and rainy)- Sandals or rubber thongs for showers- Comfortable walking/hiking shoes- Raincoat or poncho- Wide Brimmed Hat- Sunglasses - Malaria Pills- Sun Block- Insect Repellent- First Aid Kit (with blister kit) - Camera with good zoom capability- Binoculars - If on a camp safari, a towel and sleeping bag. - Flash light or head lamp- Hostel sleep sack if you have one- Zip Lock bags to prevent items from getting wet- Lock and Wire Cable- Copies of important documents- Ear plugs if you need complete quiet to sleep
It depend on travelling style but make sure it's resistant bag because it wont be handled by care, those guys just throwing it in and out of the plain baggage compartment. More or less it should be cotton cloths because it makes us less sweating, esspecially if humid. Something warm, like water resistant jacket or light leather jacket is advisable too, you might need it for evenings or early mornings. Good walking shoes, solid but yet comfortable. Hat or cap might be very useful for both, sunny or rainy days. Take all precauting measures before travelling, might be too late if something happens there. Do not forget your camera and lots of memory cards or those with huge capacity. I suggest additional lens if going on safari.
Take toilet paper or tissues. Toilets are few and far between. Even when you find a toilet, there wont be any paper and other times you will have to use the bushes anyway. A digital camera is a must as you will take hundreds of photos and you are able to delete the ones you don't like. Better still, take a video camera. A video camera captures so much more of the real life action. Take a flashlight. as many of the lodges only run on generators, they have them turned off during the night. And if you need to use the bathroom, the rooms are pitch black. Sometimes there are candles to use, But they can be a bother to light and carry through mosquito nets.Also take an electrical outlet for Africa for charging batteries and other appliances.
Our hotel (Bamburi Beach Hotel) and most others have a evening dress code of long pants for men. I did not plan on this and only had my blue jeans that I wore on the flight out. The hotel did allow however, shorts "so long as they are below the knee". Luckily I had one pair that fit the bill. Many other men/boys wore 3/4 length trousers.
If you are going to visit any part of Africa that has good game viewing possibilities, you should invest in a camera with good telephoto lens capability (300 mm or better). Back in those days I had an Olympus OM-1 with a 200 mm lens plus a 2x converter, giving me 400 mm capability. This photo shows a view of three Giraffe that I captured while on maximum zoom (8-times magnification). The same scene in second photo shows those three Giraffes at centre-right, not much better than specks on the horizon! Sadly, I did not take good care of my Olympus while living in Papua New Guinea, resulting in moisture and fungus destroying its electronics. As a result, I only had a 105-mm lens camera when we visited South Africa's Kruger National Park in 1995, and it was not up to the game viewing task at all!
Nairobi Serena Hotel Nairobi
4 Reviews and 205 Opinions The Nairobi Serena is a top quality hotel and our stay was excellant. The staff were polite and...
Governors' IlMoran Camp Masai Mara Game Reserve
4 Reviews and 67 Opinions Little Governors Camp was built in 1976 in the Masai Mara in Kenya with its own independent...
Serena Beach Hotel & Spa Mombasa
1 Review and 209 Opinions Quite a long way out of Mombasa to the North, this is said to be one of the best hotels on the coast...
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Q: i want to go to kenya for 5 months with my 3 children and husbin im wondering what are so wonderful sites to see?
A: Hi Why don't you start by reading the many travel pages on Kenya that VT members have already compiled? As you're a new member, you may not yet be aware how to do this....
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