After our safari adventures, Ava and I were ready to do some serious shopping. We asked Dee if there was a Maasai craft market where we could buy masks and blankets, and he said that we could buy crafts at the local Maasai village, where we would also get a tour and learn how they lived. Sounded good! We arrived to the circular village in the blazing early afternoon sun and were greeted by a group of Maasai warriors dressed in their traditional blankets, sandals and beaded be

We left Diani Reef early in the morning and got back on a little plane headed to the Maasai Mara National Reserve, a huge park that protects wild animals, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park to the south in Tanzania. We thought we came close to Mount Kilimanjaro before, but this view was even better! We jumped in his jeep and spent the next hour bumping along dirt roads to get to the Tipilikwani Camp. It was still quite early, so Dee asked if we’d like to go on a four

Blog three of my African adventures with Dr. Ava Cadell. Getting from Zanzibar, Tanzania to Diani Reef, Kenya took three planes in one day, though later we were told that one plane would have sufficed if we had gone direct. As it was, we flew from Zanzibar back to Dar Es Salaam, Dar to Nairobi, then finally Nairobi to Ukunda, and after that a very short car ride to our hotel Diani Reef Resort & Spa. On the plane from Dar to Nairobi, we flew over Mount Kilimanjaro. Hello! I wa