Two years of blogging comes to a close....

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….

-          Swimming with whale sharks in Mozambique

-          Snorkelling with manta rays in Coral Bay, Western Australia

-          Getting crazily close to rhinos whilst walking on Lewa

-          Riding with lions on Lewa

-          White water rafting the White Nile, Uganda

-          Seeing mountain gorillas in Uganda

-          Horse riding in Lake Malawi

-          The White Desert, Egypt

-          Visiting the mountain kingdom of Lesotho via the Sani Pass

-          Bunji jumping off Bloukrans Bridge, South Africa

-          The Taj Mahal, India

-          The holy city of Varanasi on the River Ganges, India

-          Sky diving over Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand

-          Hiking the Routeburn Track, New Zealand

-          Flying in the biplane over Lewa and Samburu

-          Galloping along the Wilderness airstrip at sunrise with the biplane flying alongside

-          Awesome Odyssey times with great people (Odyssey is the company I did my Cairo to Cape Town trip with)

-          Seeing cheetah cubs

-          Spotting wild dog

-          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…