Ammon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
started driving up a \u201cmountain\u201d (big hill) and stopped near the top for a bathroom break. There was also a snack shop so we got black cherry Fanta and Pringles. We saw Ketchup Pringles. How disgusting. Drove again then stopped at a near a grocery store for a bathroom break. But because we were walking by, I smelled some donuts. So after we did BTHBRK we got some donuts. Drove to a gas station and filled up. Found out that our safari vehicle has 2 tanks. Then we got to our hotel (which is just 2 small shacks. 1 is a restaurant and the other one is 2 room lodging).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pictures from the 15th<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n LaReita:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Maasai guide and driver (Enoch and Dan) came to pick us up in the traditional safari Land Rover, complete with a \u201cNational Geographic\u201d logo in the back window. As a kid I loved watching National Geographic on PBS, and reading the magazines that Grandma Jeppesen subscribed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a 5 hour total drive from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara. I told our FMF friend and contact, Edith Njapit (a Maasai), that I wanted to support a Maasai business and not the Chinese camps. Our accommodations were definitely different than our nice Kenyan-run Nairobi hotel, but it was not a traditional Maasi bamboo frame and cow-dung-mud home. It was not a shack as Ammon described. But we did have to sleep with 2 layers of nets. You can see the pics if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I learned more about the pervasiveness of the Chinese influence into the Kenyan infrastructures. Including the newly paved road they built from Narok (a half-way point from Nairobi) to the gate of the Maasai Mara. It previously took 5 hours from Narok to the gate, but now it is only 1 hour. (So before the road went in, it would be 9-10 hours from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The road is now paved, but is already experiencing potholes because there is only 1 inch of asphalt with no road-base. I’m not exaggerating. Dave would exaggerate it to 1\/2 inch. But this really is an inch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sigh. I look forward to the day when more people will start treating each other with respect and concern. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ammon: started driving up a \u201cmountain\u201d (big hill) and stopped near the top for a bathroom break. There was also a snack shop so we got black cherry Fanta and Pringles. We saw Ketchup Pringles. How disgusting. Drove again then stopped at a near a grocery store for a bathroom break. But because we were … Continue reading “September 15, 2025\u00a0(Monday)\u00a0\u2013 Day\u00a04\u00a0Nairobi\u00a0to Maasai Mara, Kenya”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ammon","category-david_berky","category-lareita_berky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10693,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}