Während des Trainings für meinen ersten Triathlon lernte ich Jonas Benkert, den damaligen Geschäftsführer der Schüler GmbH Namaste Nepal in Freiberg, kennen, da er zufällig im gleichen Verein trainierte. Da er auch in diesem Jahr mitfliegen wollte um das Partnerdorf zu besuchen, änderte ich in meinem ursprünglichen Flug von Nairobi nach Delhi das Ziel nach Kathmandu,…
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Ähnlich wie bei Kenia wurde mir von meiner Fluggesellschaft (Qatar Airways) der entsprechende Antrag für ein Touristenvisa im Flugzeug gereicht. Im Nachhinein betrachtet wäre es intelligenter gewesen das Visum im Voraus online zu beantragen, da die Schlange dafür deutlich kürzer war – so musste ich fast zwei Stunden für warten. Die Gebühr für 30 Tage…
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After the night in the Kakamega Forest I took a matatu to Kisumu, a town at Lake Victoria. I recommend no one to travel longer distances by matatu, because normally there is space for 15 people – but in mine there was 20 people and one hen. In Kisumu I used for the very first time couchsurfing.com…
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The Kakamega Forest National Reservat is a rainforest in the west of Kenya. Unfortunately I left Eldoret a bit late, so that my walk started not until 01:00 PM. This got me in an unfavorable situation, but more on that later. In the rainforest it is warm, humid, really green everywhere and noises from animals…
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This post is part of a series called In One Day Among the 10 fastest marathon runners are 8 from Kenya and many runners train here: in Iten. A small town near Eldoret in about 2400 m height. I arrived on Monday evening to the famous High Altitude Training Center and stayed for 3 days. And this…
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This post is part of a series called On Safari Safari on the boat Now that I’ve spent three days at Maasai Mara and one day at Lake Nakuru, my Safari ended this day at Lake Naivasha. We got up very early and went on boat safari for bird watching. Besides birds, we also saw a few…
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This post is part of a series called On Safari After we have spent three great days in the Maasai Mara National Park, our safari brought us on this day to Lake Nakuru. First we drove through the surrounding National Park of the lake and were fortunate to discover a lioness in a tree. But we had…
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This post is part of a series called On Safari Day 1: „A van is waiting in front of the house“ Those were the words that Alice said to me last Monday around 06:30 clock. The driver brought me to the center of Nairobi, where I boarded another van. In this I met the people with whom…
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Ein Visum für Kenia muss man nicht vorher in Deutschland beantragen. Das notwendige Formular bekommt man im Flugzeug, wo man es auch gleich ausfüllen kann. Nachdem man gelandet ist, bekommt man gegen die Zahlung von 40,00 € und der elektronischen Erfassung der Fingerabdrücke das Visum für Kenia ausgestellt.
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First the bad news. I was sick. Typhus. Though I was vaccinated this year. Cause this disease needs some weeks until it breaks out, it is very unlikely that I have infected me here in Kenya, but I do not know where else. However – I took Antibiotics for five days and now I’m healed. Now…
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