AFRICA - listener questions about my recent vacation to Kenya and Tanzania

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Africa, listener questions

Podcast Transcription

Welcome to the Goal Achievement podcast thank you so much for listening. My name is Matt East, I'm your host and on today's episode, we're going to talk all about a recent trip I took.

So I've received so many questions from you guys about this, probably 75 or so emails or LinkedIn notes or whatever, I mean, DM's so I've been asked a ton of questions about this trip and I'm just going to answer them in one fell swoop here.

I'm not going to go question by question, just kind of in general going to answer, you know, how is your trip? That's probably been half of them. Where did you go? Where did you stay? What did you do? So we'll knock some of those out.

So how was my trip?

The trip was absolutely amazing, Africa is just tremendous, it was... it was wonderful. We visited two countries, so we did Kenya and Tanzania, if you're unfamiliar, like Kenya, where we started is eastern Africa, kind of from north to south, pretty central, so like the center of the country, then the Far East, and that's where it's at, so Eastern Africa.

And so we started we stayed in Nairobi, so we flew from New York to Nairobi, I think that's about a 14-hour flight it was crazy. But yeah, Nairobi is the capital city in the largest city in Kenya. It's around four points three people or so in the actual city and nine or 10 million in the metropolitan area.

But wonderful, wonderful place, we had an absolute blast there, Rachel and I were... wanted to spend a couple of days there or a few days there prior to going on our safari, which is kind of what we really went for or we thought we were going and I say that because we ended up just like falling in love with the people, just I mean, the Kenyan people and Tanzanian people are unbelievable people, just absolutely unbelievable people and will definitely be returning for sure.

And... and the, you know, wildlife and sightseeing that we want to do on the safari did not disappoint at all, but man, the people just blew our minds, it was just amazing, amazing people.

So anyway, so stayed at a hotel called Uzur in Nairobi, it was amazing. We did the elephant orphanage there, there's a giraffe center, so I got the trip started off right, it was amazing, just amazing, amazing, amazing like food at our hotel and, and within the city there, just had a really, really amazing experience in Nairobi.

From Nairobi we started to drive and to the Masai Mara, which is the kind of the preserve or reserve, it's around 700 square miles and that's where you're able to see lions and leopards and cheetahs and elephants and wildebeest and gazelles and antelopes and all that good stuff, it's just an amazing, amazing place.

So we went to the Masai Mara, just incredible like drive there, so we drove from Nairobi to the Masai Mara and just I mean, just amazing like we start to pull up into the Masai Mara and there's just there's literally just like giraffes just right... right there. I mean, just unbelievable and lions and I mean, it's just crazy if you haven't experienced it, it's just absolutely mind-blowing, I can't really, I can't really describe.

So we spent, we spent what was probably four or five days in the Masai Mara, it was absolutely amazing. We stayed at let me look up where we stayed, we stayed at Julias River Camp, it was amazing, just really, really incredible.

And then after our time in the Masai Mara, we crossed over into the Serengeti, which is in Tanzania and that's even a much bigger park it's like 12000 square miles, which is crazy, crazy, crazy, big, and I think it's an actual national park and, you know, when you're there, you're able to see the wildebeest.

So there's wildebeest are making a migration, it's called the Great Migration, or they kind of do a circular migration that includes both the Masai Mara and the Serengeti, but it's tons of animals, tons of wildebeest, and, you know, zebras are kind of joining them and hanging out with them and Thompson gazelles are joining them, but it's something like one point seven million wildebeest are making this migration. I mean, so much that like I think our one of our guides told us that something like a quarter-million wildebeest die during that journey each year, which is insane, I'm just insane to think about the numbers, like when you're...

We didn't see, like, the Great Migration, like all of its glory, because you have to time it kind of perfectly and we were probably a little off on the timing, but we still saw part of it and you see, I mean, just thousands of animals at a time. I mean, just I mean, maybe hundreds of thousands, I mean, it's just absolutely mind-blowing, so just absolutely mind-blowing so, yeah.

So that was the Serengeti, we stayed... Let me see if I can look up where we stayed there, so yeah, we did the it was called Pemzeca Serengeti and I should mention we booked all of our travel through a company that I would highly recommend, it was called The Soul of Tanzania, that was an amazing company to work with, absolutely amazing company to work with, so I couldn't, like, recommend them more and yeah.

So from the Serengeti, we kind of ended, Part of the Serengeti is the Gawn Goro Crater, That's where we ended our trip and yeah, is just absolutely insane guys I mean, I can't really, I'm sure this is kind of boring to listen to, but you guys have asked a lot of questions about this.

So anyway, I hope I'm not boring you guys all to death, but yeah. So we went to Masai Mara in Kenya and then we went to the Serengeti in Tanzania and then we wrapped up our trip we went to Arusha, which is a major city in Tanzania and Tanzania was just beautiful I mean, just like absolutely beautiful I definitely will be going back to both Kenya and Tanzania, but, man, it was just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Both countries are beautiful, I didn't mean to say one was more beautiful than another, absolutely beautiful.

But yeah, from Arusha, we flew to do some scuba diving, so we wanted to dive for a few days so we went to Zanzibar and dove at through a company called what was it, Buccaneer Diving in Zanzibar is just absolutely amazing, Buccaneer Diving man if you are a scuba diver, check that place out, it's just a mind-blowing reef there just absolutely spectacular diving, if you're a diver, it just, you know, I don't know how to describe it.

It's really interesting there, there's a really, really big I don't know if that's the right word. There's a really significant high, high tide, and low tide, so the tide really goes back like, you know, I've been in Florida a lot in California and it seems like the tides are like not that significant, but there every day we were there, it's like a mile tide, maybe like it was insane, but yeah.

So and I only mention that because if you're a diver, the scheduling is like very strict, and usually, when you go into a dive shop, it's like super chill, and there they were like, yeah, we'll be leaving at one thirty - two tomorrow, which is a weird thing for a dive shop to say so anyway.

But yeah, I mean Zanzibar like the water so it's the Indian Ocean is surrounding you and it was just like perfectly clear water, it was mind-blowing. And I've definitely been to the Caribbean a bunch and South American to the Keys and that water was just like absolutely mind-blowing compared to everything else I'd seen.

So anyway, I hope that gives you an idea, I can't believe I just talked about that for ten minutes somehow. Yeah, I hope that gives you an idea about how the trip was and answers some questions for you, and yeah, that's it, man.

If you have any specific questions, let me know if you're actually planning a trip and you have like serious questions then just send those very specific questions and I'll just answer those one-off via email send those via email if you do Matt@Matt-East.com is my email.

That's it, guys, hope that helps. I'm going to be on a much more regular cadence with the podcast here in the coming months. So I'm back in Indy for a while and really excited to dive back in and that's it. Uh, chat soon bye-bye.

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