So i'm a bit pants really at the whole blogging thing - but at least started out with the best of intentions!
On Wednesday morning I am catching a small plane down to the Masai Mara where I will spend a lot of time in a 4x4 but hopefully seeing lots of big cats to make it all worthwhile!! I was originally going by road - which should normally only take about 5 hours from Nairobi. However as was widely reported in the media over Christmas, the Mara received hellish amounts of rainfall. Whilst the park has mostly recovered now (it was shut for a period of time over christmas) the main road into the park has been washed away and rendered totally inaccessible for the forseeable future. The two alternatives that I was offered involved either flying (at a further expense) or driving the long way round which take roughyl 9 hours. If you knew what the roads are like you would understand why I therefore chose to catch a small plane. And i'm terrified of planes ESPECIALLY small ones so I hope that illustrates just HOW much I don't want to be on Kenyan roads for 9 hours!!
Anyway, greatly looking forward to it. This week has been spent training hard for the Kilimanjaro trek. Despite spending a lot of time at the well air conditioned gym in Aylesbury (thus giving me the illusion of being fit) I arrive in the heat here and find myself struggling to do just an hour of hard cardio. So amidst my efforts here, my short trip to the Masai Mara - I feel - will be great relief! I almost look forward to the freezing cold early morning game drives. When I say freezing cold I of course am only talking about 14 degrees MINIMUM and there's me with windchill LOL. Oh dear I really am going to struggle when I am back in the UK.
Which is only 32 days away. Very depressing really - whilst I am missing home and all the connotations that go with it - I really am loving my time here. Despite hiccup after hiccup, Kenya has really grown on me. And I only have roughyl 4 and a half weeks left until I pack to come home. Which is another HUGE problematic issue. Packing. Since some intelligent person with an IQ of 2 at BA decided to change baggage policy - I now have to work out how I am going to return to England with ONE bag when I flew OUTHERE WITH TWO. What is that all about?! WHO EMPLOYS THESE PEOPLE/!?! Anyway, I am going to struggle with that I am sure but right now I have bigger fish to fry.
Apprehension is mounting (PUN!) now that the Kili climb is only 2 weeks away. All the usual is running through my mind - what if I don't make it to the top, what if I get attacked by a monkey and get rabies and go mad, am I fit enough? Will my waterproofs leak? Will my leg suddenyl fall off on day one thus rendering my presence there pointless. I MEAN these are all possible circumstances!!
Anyway that's all for now folks. Found our resident colobus monkey climbing the bars on the windows yesterday afternoon and as such we're now having to be obsessive in closing windows and doors. Not too much fun really now that the humidity is building as the rainy season draws closer and temperatures are around 36degrees right until half6 in the evening!
Han
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Hello
Well it sounds like you are having a good time!!
I sent like a massive round robin email to you the other day, and i've since tried to email you but hotmail always crashes out here.
Hope everything with you is dandy, if this is the last chance I get to email you before kili, GOOD LUCK!! sure it will be badass and that you will enjoy it!
Take care
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