Packing for Kenya

Packing was novel for us as we are used to only taking hand baggage. All of a sudden, our package included 2 x 23kg hold bags each, on top of our cabin baggage. I don’t think I have 46kg of clothing.

The good news is that I can put all my cheaper electrical goods (chargers, wires etc.) and most of our liquids in the hold baggage saving me getting it all out when passing through security checks.

As usual we have over researched what to wear on Safari to find most of our cloths are unsuitable because they are the wrong colours. Black attracts Tsetse fly, bright colours frighten away the animals.

Evidently the best colours to wear are khaki, greens and browns.

We decided as we were going to buy new clothing in the right colours we would buy Craghoppers Nosilife (a treatment applied to clothing to repel mosquitoes). I bought 3 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers (1 pair convertible to shorts).

I already had T Shirts and shorts in the right colours.

I treated my trusty hat, the top of my socks, and sandals with Lifesystems Ex4 Anti Mosquito Clothing Treatment.

We had thought being on the equator it would be hot, but it seems the evenings, nights and early mornings are cold, so I am taking 3 different weight fleeces that I can layer if needed.

Although it is not the rainy season, looking at the weather forecast it looks like we may have rain, particularly in the Aberdare region so I am having to pack a coat.

Then of course there is the Camera equipment:

• Canon EOS M3 – A mirror-less camera, smaller than an SLR but producing the same quality.
• A zoom lens and an wide angle lens for the EOS M3
• Canon PowerShot SX620 HS (A tiny camera with an amazing zoom great for grabbing a quick snapshot and also takes fantastic videos).
• Ricoh Theta SC 360 Degree Camera
• Tripod
• Monopod
• Spare Batteries
• Spare Memory cards.
• Filters

That took up a lot of space.