Trip To Kenya - detailed plan of our trip

(click here to see all my posts regarding our visit to Kenya)

Here is map and detailed plan of our trip:

28/01/12: Nairobi/Meru
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International airport you will go through the immigration formalities then you
will be met by our representative and introduced to your driver/guide and cook then leave Nairobi for Meru
National Park which is Former home of Joy &George Adamson and Elsa the lioness. Lunch will be served
then proceed to explore the park with chances of seeing Grevy's Zebra, Elephants, Eland, Water buck,
Cheetah, Leopard, Reticulated Giraffe, Hippos, Hartebeest, Buffalo and different species of birds. Return to
budget camp for dinner and overnight

29/01/12: Meru
Breakfast will be served the proceed for game drive before you return to budget camp for lunch. Optional
visit to Meru cultural village and the Meru museum followed by late afternoon game drive before you return
to budget camp for dinner and overnight

30/01/12: Meru/Samburu
After breakfast proceed to Samburu arriving in time for lunch at budget camp followed by late afternoon
game drive. Return to budget camp for dinner and overnight.

31/01/12: Samburu
Full day game viewing with a chance to see the Grevy's Zebra, Reticulated giraffe, long necked gerenuk,
somali ostrich among other wild with optional visit to samburu cultural village in between the meals. All meals
served and overnight at the budget camp.

01/02/12: Samburu/Lake Nakuru
After breakfast depart for Isiolo and continue with your journey via the equator where you will have a
stopover for photo and demonstration then proceed to Nyahururu with a stopover at Thomson’s falls then
continue with your safari to Lake Nakuru arriving in time for lunch followed by late afternoon game drive with
chances of seeing rhino, waterbuck, buffalo, giraffe, baboons not forgetting the flamingos. All meals served
with overnight at WCK guest house/budget hotel.

02/02/12: Lake Nakuru/Maasai mara
After breakfast proceed to the famous maasai mara Game reserve where you will arrive in time for lunch
at either Mara Chui or Mara Sidai budget camp followed by late afternoon game drive in search of black
manned lion, elephant, leopard, cheetah, buffalo and other plains game. Dinner and overnight at campsite

03/02/12: Maasai Mara
Optional early morning hot air balloon ride. Full day game viewing with a visit to the mara river where you will
have a chance to see hippo and crocodile with all meals served and overnight at either Mara Chui or Mara
Sidai budget camp

04/02/12: Maasai Mara/Lake Naivasha
Early morning game drive followed by late breakfast then optional visit to maasai cultural village en route as
you depart for Narok and continue with your journey to Lake Naivasha with lunch en route. You will arrive
in time for an hour’s boat ride where you will have a chance to see hippo and different species of birds.
Proceed to budget camp for dinner and overnight.

05/02/12: Lake Naivasha/Amboseli
After an early breakfast leave Naivasha via the great Rift valley where you will have a stopover to admire
the scenic views of the escarpment then continue with your journey passing via the outskirts of Nairobi and
proceed to Amboseli National park arriving in time for lunch at budget camp. Later proceed for game drive
in search of lions, giraffe, zebra, buffalo, hippos, gigantic elephants the park is famous for not forgetting the
views of Mt. Kilimanjaro on a clear day. Return to budget camp for dinner and overnight.

06/02/12: Amboseli/Nairobi
After an early breakfast proceed for game drive en route as you depart for Nairobi where you will arrive in
time to be dropped off at the airport in time to check in for your home bound flight departing at 1520hrs.

Trip to Kenya or hakuna matata or не ходите дети в Африку гулять

We have just back from Kenya. Here is a ( map of our trip) .
We visited the following national parks Meru, Samburu, Lake Nakuru, Maasai mara, Lake Naivasha, Amboseli. We spent 10 very pleasent days. I would like to thank you to our tour company Australken Tours and Travel safaris@australken.com and in person to Zippy ,  Livingstone and Daniel - for making our stay very memoriable. I left my reviews regarding Australken Tours  at (click the following links to see my reviews) (Tripadvisor )and (Lonelyplanet).

1. what kind of medicine \ Immunizations \ vaccination do you need to visit Kenya.
here I described our own experience (Malanil ...)

2. Our  plan in very details day by day (10 days in row).
normally we were doing game drive (photo hunting right in the park :) about ~7 hours per day. 6:30am-11am and 4pm-7pm.
Just for your reference here is drive time we spent to get from park to park:
Nairobi ->(9hours) Meru -> (3h) Samburu -> (9h) Lake Nakuru -> (7h)  Maasai mara -> (6h) Lake Naivasha -> (5h) Amboseli -> (4h) Nairobi . Note road to Maasai mara (last 50-60 km are very rough road)
...
just some funny moments:

see location  on my map 

1. Kiss with the tallest mammal on Earth

2. Cheetah and her baby in wild Nature (right after hunting)

3. Wild Cat in Kenya. Cats are everywhere :)

4. The tallest mammal on our Earth in front of the tallest mountain in Africa. OR  Mount Kilimanjaro vs giraffes


5. Secretary Bird or the bird which can hunt on snakes


6.  Lions in wild nature


(I am still working to have this post FINISHED - keep coming!!)

Trip to Kenya and Immunizations \ vaccination

(click here to see all my posts regarding our visit to Kenya)
We have just back from Kenya. Before the trip read a lot about  immunizations ...
Last year before our visit to Argentina we were got vaccination against Yellow Fever (the shot good for 10 years).
To have kind of protection against malaria we used Malanil pills. We do not have it here in Russia so we got one right after landing in Nairobi. Cost about ~2 USD per pill. Here how it looks like:

Hope the post is helpful!

Flex Cubes 3D / Flex Dice 3D

(download link) Flex dice is the app I developed by myself - I am sure the app will entertain your:) (see my other apps)

Hello I am Flex Cubes 3D :) / Flex Dice 3D
if you have any troubles or wishes regarding me please contact to my author (Alex) aradzhabov@gmail.com
Use me to create and roll 3d cubes with your OWN design based on photos from contacts or images on your phone. You can have unlim num of cubes and select up to six to display at the same time.
To roll just shake or swipe your finger across screen.

You can create cubes for different purposes like board games, decision makers, who is next, (e.g. based on photos of your friends), Cadoo games ... just switch on your imagination.
I have lots of shared skins and 3 built in cubes: dices white and red + decision maker for general purposes (yes, no ..)
To show and roll above ones and any ones you will create or import:
when in main screen press (Menu button->Choose cubes ..) then check/uncheck ones you want to display.
I also have public shared cubes. To see the ones press (Menu button->(www) shared cubes..)
You can save any shared cube for further using: just click import button on your screen.
Check them out!
You can also share your cubes with your friends only or with everybody. I will describe details further.



tech. note:
I start loading images for the sides of shared cubes as soon as you click on the particular shared cube but I save them to cache so next time you run me I will take the images from cache. In general every image is about 15kb. The cache is located in root of your SD card in folder FlexCubes3dCache. If you do not have external drive like SD the cache is located in special folder assigned by Android and can not be seen.


You can create new or for existing cubes: edit, share, clone, del
plus import zipped cubes and load shared cubes (as described above)
just press (Menu button->Manage cubes ..) when you are on main screen.
add, edit, del are pretty straight forward so I put more details about share and clone feature.

tech. note:
I am designed to work with images of 128x128 pixels. So If you try to add image of diff. size I try to resize (do not worry original one will stay untouched). If you are not satisfied with result the best idea will be crop the image by yourself or create fake contact then Android will take care about cropping.


Clone - the reason I have clone features - just to save your time if e.g. you need set of cubes with exact the same design.
Share - you can share any of your cubes. What I do is zip the selected cube and generate email with attached zipped cube - so you can send email to your friends only or if you keep my author as addressee you cube will be published in shared cubes section.
If you got zipped cube from your friend you can simply import one
press (Menu button->Manage cubes .. -> Import zipped cube ..) when you are on main screen.

tech. note:
I keep last zipped cube and sides' images in the same cache as described above.

Enjoy!

p.s. examples of shared cubes (you also can find lots of decision makers ...):

Christmas -> thank you Tanya (http://artdesigner.lv/) for the icons. Skin was done based on Tanya`s  icons.
and Runebound game by Fantasy Flight -> thank you Lindsey Dubb for sharing the skin

Christmas samples:

 

Runebound game by Fantasy Flight samples ...

 

skin for FUDGE role playing game <- shared by Lindsey Dubb. Some samples ..