Which Country should you Choose for Your First African Safari? Your first African Safari can be daunting. The country, the weather, the food, and the language are all vastly different. Below I have highlighted my best tips for choosing the right country to get...
Great Top Tips for an African Safari combined with a beach holiday. Six Minute Read. Why should you take my advice? Well, I am an author that has lived in Africa for well over twenty years. I came in 2000 with my four young children, and I forged a life here. I...
Top Tips for the Best African Safari Vehicle Why should you listen to my advice? My name is Steve Baker and I have lived in East Africa since 2000. I have traveled the length and breadth of Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and even popped into Somalia on occasion. I...
My top ten tips for that once-in-a-lifetime safari. Why should you take this advice? I am Steve Braker and I have lived in East Africa for the last twenty years. I am an avid safari-goer and have taken my wife and four children on many different adventures across...
A lot of you have been asking me for more history emails about East Africa. This is a pet subject of mine, so I am happy to oblige. Kongowea Market Mombasa-A blog by Steve Braker Action Thriller Author Not far from where I live is a large market called Kongowea....
As I sit in my office, come living room, looking out at the dark thunderclouds hovering above the ocean. I am sure as the evening arrives and the earth cools, the clouds will roll in and we will get another tropical rainstorm. This has been a constant in my life...
It’s raining here in Mombasa, which is a double-edged sword. We desperately need the much needed rain as we have been having a drought for almost six years, but the rain always brings flooding and disease. The denizens of the slums around Mombasa suffer, as they...
A Leopard Attacks the Village Where I live in Mombasa is not exactly in the bush. However, we do get reminders from time to time that it is very close. The clever, thieving vervets that come and invade my house, stealing anything they can lay their hands on is one....
I have been very busy with book six, African Jinn, it has reached eighty thousand words. Now is the time to send it to Deirdre, my lovely editor, so she can mark it up with loads of red pen and make me feel awful! But that’s the life of an author. As Stephen King...
Currently, we are suffering from empty nest syndrome. Olivia and Sam, my daughter and her fiancé, left to head back to the U.K. So, Pauline and I are rattling around the flat waiting for the doorbell to ring. But what the hell, life goes on, and we have to settle...
I had a great Christmas with my daughter Olivia and her fiancé Sam who have come to stay for six weeks. This world of nomad working is fantastic for families like mine where we are spread out all over the world. Olivia is working a few days via the internet and...
Last weekend my wife and I went to a beautiful beach restaurant called Monsoon it’s based in one of my favorite towns, Mtwapa. You will all have heard me mention Mtwapa in most of my books. I lived in Mtwapa for more than ten years and watched it grow from a sleepy...
As I am sure you know I am a great lover of African history. So, I thought I would hand over the reins to a real hero of a time gone by. Sam Wagner was in Kenya in the 1950s and saw what I can only dream of. He managed to go to places and do things that just are...
Recently I was invited by an Australian friend of mine to go scuba diving. He has recently moved to a small coastal town about 60 km north of Mombasa called Kilifi. My wife and I decided to make a weekend of it and stay in the hotel attached to the diving...
If you didn’t manage to read the first three chapters then here are some links: If you missed the first Chapter then click here, and for Chapter Two click here, and Chapter Three click here.After our wonderful time at Fort Patiko Pauline and I started the long...
