Category: netherlands

when i was in grade 9, long before starting this blog, my family took a month-long trip to africa. my mother grew up in kenya and had lots of family around so there was a lot to see. we spent some time in and around nairobi, kenya, where a couple aunts and uncles lived at the time. we then took a little plane to mwanza, tanzania, on the shore of lake victoria, where another aunt and uncle lived. from there, we took an epic roadtrip across tanzania – through the serengeti national park and ngorongoro crater with our own vehicle for a private safari, to tarangire national park which is famous for its elephants, to moshi and arusha where another aunt and uncle lived, and to the coast at tanga, then up to mombasa, kenya, where we spent some time at the beach before returning to nairobi. we then flew up to ethiopia for 5 days where we visited another uncle and aunt. on the way home we stopped in amsterdam for a few days, where we visited the rijksmuseum and went to edam where we saw windmills and ate cheese.