https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:33:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/return-to-nairobi-for-a-few-days-ke/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:18:36 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=40080 January 15th, 2022 Saturday morning we awoke to a clean car again and left Voi by 7am for the 4-6 hour drive back to Nairobi. We got stopped fifteen minutes in by a major accident, then saw two more that did not affect us.  The highway (if you can call it that) here is full […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tsavo-west-and-east-national-parks-ke/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:45:04 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=39959   January 11th, 2002 The Tsavo Parks Tsavo West and East National Parks cover an area of 9,065 square kilometres. Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they all comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area. Tsavo West is a more popular destination on account of its magnificent scenery, rich and varied wildlife, good road system, and rhino reserve, rock […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/ol-pejeta-conservancy-to-amboseli-np-ke/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:09:12 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=39812   January 9th, 2022 Ol Pejeta The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a 360 km2 (140 square mi) not-for-profit wildlife conservancy in Central Kenya. The Conservancy boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in east Africa; in 2013, it reached a population milestone of 100 black rhino. It also houses the two remaining northern white rhino in the world, who were moved there from the Czech Republic. […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/lake-nakuru-np-to-nanyuki-ke/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:22:53 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=39646 January 7th, 2022 KENYA Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Eastern Africa. It encompasses savannah, lakelands, the dramatic Great Rift Valley and mountain highlands. It’s also home to wildlife like lions, elephants and rhinos. It is the world’s 48th largest country by area. With a population of more than 53 million […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/travelling-to-africa/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 09:32:57 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=39617 January 1, 2022 Happy new year again everyone! We awoke New Year’s Day to no snow due to overnight sprinkles and it wasn’t that cold. Fran worked with Josh on updating his new second hand fridge and we had yet another quiet “COVID times” day staying safe. While we did this, Josh also worked on […]]]>