The best people who can explain how our business works and if we are worth organizing your travel experience are of course our clients. They can tell you a lot about their experiences and show you how much they liked traveling trough Kenya, while using the service of HHT&S
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If I look back on my 10 weeks stay in Kenya, one of the most exiting weeks definitely is the safari to Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru! Together with eight other AIESEC trainees from the Netherlands, the USA, Canada and Germany we saw all the animals present in Kenya, including the Big 5 (the lion, the elephant, the rhino, the leopard and the buffalo).
The trip was very well organized and very divers. We camped in the Mara and stayed in a guesthouse in Lake Nakuru. The animals we did not see in the first park we saw in the other. At night we were not allowed to leave the sites, to ensure that we were not killed by a hungry lion, cheetah or leopard. Imagine, drinking your beer or wine on a nice safari evening surrounded by stunning nature and dangerous wildlife! This made the trip very adventurous and next to this, the safari was very comfortable. We had our personal driver with us, who knew a lot about Kenyan wildlife and took us everywhere we wanted to go. Besides him, the whole trip was catered by our personal chef. He made breakfast, lunch, tea, coffee and diner for us, always at the right times, always delicious. The only thing we had to worry about were the batteries in our digi-cams to make sure that we could eternalize our great experience on pictures.
To sum up, the safari was great, adventurous and definitely worth every shilling!
Jurjan Mol, The Netherlands - June 2006
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The first impression of the capital city of Kenya might not be the best one, but after you have been taken on a city tour by HHT&S this will definately change.
Helping Hands took us on a tours trough some nice places in town, like the house of Karen Blixen, famous from the book/movie "Out of Africa". After this interesting visit we drove to the Giraffe Center, where we could feed the giraffes and pet them. To make the day complete we stopped at the Bomas of Kenya, some kind of open-air museum where we could see how the different tribes in Kenya live and experience their traditions and culture.
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The trip was as adventurous as exiting! We had no idea what to expect. When you think about a boat trip in the US, you immediately think about a cruise with cocktails. This trip was nothing like that. From Ukwala, where we did volunteer work, we took a small bus and asked the driver if he could take us to Lake Victoria. He did and next to that he brought us to a fisherman who organized a boat tour for us. The boat was leaking and way too small for all of us, but it was amazing! We stopped at a beach, where the locals were busy preparing the fish they had just caught. It definately wasn't a cruise, but we certainly had the time of our lives. It made the volunteer work period for the Youth Friendly Center and the Health clinic even more avdventurous as it already was!
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Lions, Cheetas and Elephants are cool, but something that I will never forget about my stay in Kenya is my weekend in Kibera, the largest slum in sub-saharan Africa! Helping hands organized this weekend and a tour through this slum. I knew the stories about this place, but after being here, I'll never forget anymore how much these people need help. on the other hand I experienced how happy these people can be with little... something we probably have forgotten in Europe.