After a tubulent year full of twists and surprises I finally arrived in late October to my new duty station for the next three years: Kenya. Being there already in 2018, I am still very exited to now have the possibility to spend so much time in the country.
Living in Nairobi though is a „bit“ different than what I experienced during my first stay while staying at a farmers house in the rural area. Nairobi as a capital city offers basically everything you find in every other big city, with some huge additions. One of them being a National Park just next to the city. Obviously, this blog will be continued during my time in Kenya, some impressions from the Nairobi National Park will start this new chapter.
waiting in the line under a higher and higher rising sun (and without any kind of roof or shade) it was finally my turn and three seconds later I had a stamp in my passport and could continue – to the Brazilian side with the Brazilian immigration procedure. And also here, the queue was not advancing at all. The reason could be discovered two hours later, when it was finally my turn. A totally relaxed officer was alone in charge of doing the immigration procedure, and the Bolivian passports were controlled in a very rigorous way. Me in turn, I got my stamp kind of immediately.
along the guests. After some days of “acclimatisation”, my next destination was the Pantanal region, the world largest tropical wetland area. During the rainy season it is almost completely flooded, while in the dry season there are huge rivers, pools and swamps, with a huge diversity of different animal species to admire. I booked a three-day tour and together with our guide and a group from Belgium we discovered the region: boat trips, piranha-fishing, bird-watching, swimming in the river (Piranhas don’t like clear waters, so that was our place to swim), swamp-hikes (with water up to the belly) and night-walks and a trip on a horse.
kikilian. 