For those of you that follow my blog, you may have noticed
that blog posts have been a little thin on the ground recently. I originally
set my blog up to keep a record of my travels during my belated “gap year”. As
you know, my travels led me to Kenya where I have spent the best part of the
last 18 months working at a safari lodge on Lewa Downs in northern Kenya. How
time flies when you are having fun. I’ve now decided to stay a little longer –
frankly the economic situation in the UK, not to mention the atrocious weather
is a little off putting – so for the foreseeable future I will be taking on the
job of lodge manager.
Part of my new job has been to set up and run the Facebook
page for the lodge – uploading photos and details of events that have occurred
and raising awareness of what an amazing lodge Lewa Wilderness Trails is. With
that in mind, I now think it is time to bring my own blog to a close. For those
that still want a snapshot of my daily life on Lewa, then check out www.facebook.com/LewaWilderness and like us on
Facebook!
I had always planned to include in my final blog a list of
some of the top experiences and places visited over the past two years, so – in
no particular order - here goes….
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Swimming with whale sharks in Mozambique
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Snorkelling with manta rays in Coral Bay,
Western Australia
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Getting crazily close to rhinos whilst walking
on Lewa
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Riding with lions on Lewa
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White water rafting the White Nile, Uganda
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Seeing mountain gorillas in Uganda
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Horse riding in Lake Malawi
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The White Desert, Egypt
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Visiting the mountain kingdom of Lesotho via the
Sani Pass
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Bunji jumping off Bloukrans Bridge, South Africa
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The Taj Mahal, India
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The holy city of Varanasi on the River Ganges,
India
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Sky diving over Abel Tasman National Park, New
Zealand
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Hiking the Routeburn Track, New Zealand
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Flying in the biplane over Lewa and Samburu
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Galloping along the Wilderness airstrip at
sunrise with the biplane flying alongside
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Awesome Odyssey times with great people (Odyssey
is the company I did my Cairo to Cape Town trip with)
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Seeing cheetah cubs
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Spotting wild dog
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Staying at Rutundu, Mount Kenya (where Wills and
Kate got engaged!
And there are many many more
besides. All in all, when I reflect on the past two years, life has been pretty
damn good. So goodbye for now, thanks for reading – don’t forget to check out
Facebook – and I will blog again next time I go on my travels. Not sure when
that will be, but – given my wanderlust - the chances are it will happen again
sometime…
