At Menengai Crater in Nakuru, Kenya, curious tourists are drawn to a controversial cave by stories of strange happenings that have convinced many that this is a haunted place.

A number of strange things are said to happen in the crater, such as people disappearing without trace, Others losing directions for hours (or even days) only to be found by their relatives wandering around in a trance.

The local people believe that the crater is haunted by evil spirits that capture people and animals and hide them in the netherworld.It is said that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, ghosts used to farm on a fertile piece of land on the floor of the crater. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kenya Wildlife Services(KWS) announced that it might be increasing park entrance fees to its national parks. What this literally means is that the cost of going on a safari to see game in Kenyan national parks will increase. The minister for tourism in Kenya raised concerns over this move as the tourism industry has not yet fully recovered from the post election violence that shook the nation early this year.

Neighboring Tanzania has been increasing park fees since last year to as high as $60 per person. In Tanzania they also introduced a fee for crossing the Ngorongoro crater tourists that are passing.

The surprising thing is that even with increase in park fees and  other miscellaneous costs in Tanzania, many lodges continue to experience full bookings. Seems people have more money to spend than i thought

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With Kenya now back on the road to recovery with the peace agreement now in place between the two warring parties, tourism confidence is now being experienced with hotel bookings on the rise. I have been told that some lodges (Keekorok and Mara Serena) have no rooms available as a result of being fully booked.

In the previous posts i even mentioned that the supermodel Naomi Campbell was in Kenya in the month of March for her holiday! Read the rest of this entry »

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