We got robbed while on safari in Lake Nakuru... by a big baboon! We had barely stopped to check out a cliffside lookout when a huge male olive baboon rushed our Land Cruiser and jumped inside through the safari roof! A loud furry chaos ensued as he grabbed and tossled and bared his fangs out at us before jumping out a few crazy seconds later from the other side of the vehicle. He came for one thing only, and got it - he ran off with our lunch! Our driver told us "this never happens". The safari was great, we saw many animals including several rhinos, one of them only about 40 feet away.
We came to Kenya after a few days of rest in Pretoria, where we were hosted by an awesome couple called Walter and Hendrika who became new friends. They had one of the cutest/friendliest dogs I've ever met, Drumpel. We did NOT get a visa to go to Ethiopia, despite our many valiant efforts. I do not feel like recounting the insane process of trying to get an overland visa from that country while in South Africa - by this point the story is a past annoyance that completely took away the desire to travel to Ethiopia anyway!
We came to Kenya after a few days of rest in Pretoria, where we were hosted by an awesome couple called Walter and Hendrika who became new friends. They had one of the cutest/friendliest dogs I've ever met, Drumpel. We did NOT get a visa to go to Ethiopia, despite our many valiant efforts. I do not feel like recounting the insane process of trying to get an overland visa from that country while in South Africa - by this point the story is a past annoyance that completely took away the desire to travel to Ethiopia anyway!