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Contiki East Africa Safari – Days 12 & 13: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater

Aug 13, 20212 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Days 12 & 13: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater

Our penultimate day of our East African Safari was here and a level of bittersweetness began to hit us. Even though it felt like we had...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 11: Serengeti National Park

Mike McHugh

Aug 12, 20213 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 11: Serengeti National Park

We woke up in the morning and saw our camp for the first time in the daylight. It was even better than I thought. We slept in tents in...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 10: Tarangire to Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park

Mike McHugh

Aug 12, 20212 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 10: Tarangire to Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park

We woke up very early, once again, as we had a day long drive across Tanzania from Tarangire to Serengeti. After bidding farewell to our...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 9: Tarangire National Park

Mike McHugh

Aug 11, 20213 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 9: Tarangire National Park

We woke up early in the morning, so early that we needed to be escorted from our tents by the Masai who keep watch all night long. After...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 8: Amboseli to Arusha to Tarangire National Park

Mike McHugh

Aug 10, 20213 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 8: Amboseli to Arusha to Tarangire National Park

Our 6th day of the trip was quite bittersweet as it was the day that we would say goodbye to half of our tour group as well as our two...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 7: Maasai Village and Amboseli National Park

Mike McHugh

Aug 8, 20215 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 7: Maasai Village and Amboseli National Park

We started our day with another sleep in, not needing to leave the camp until 8:00 AM! Our first stop was something I was really looking...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 6: Lake Elementaita to Nairobi to Amboseli

Mike McHugh

Aug 8, 20213 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 6: Lake Elementaita to Nairobi to Amboseli

We were able to sleep in until about 6:30 AM (I know, but that is sleeping in on this trip) before heading to breakfast. The breakfast...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 5: Maasai Mara

Mike McHugh

Aug 8, 20214 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 5: Maasai Mara

We woke up early the following morning for a sunrise game drive of Masai Mara before we had to leave for Lake Elementaita. Some people...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 4: Maasai Mara

Mike McHugh

Aug 8, 20217 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 4: Maasai Mara

We had a very early wake up this morning for our highly anticipated Hot Air Balloon ride over Masai Mara. This was something not included...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 3: Maasai Mara

Mike McHugh

Aug 7, 20214 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Day 3: Maasai Mara

Jambo from Masai Mara! After lunch at our camp, we boarded our safari vehicles to head out to our first game drive! Since our camp was...

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Contiki East Africa Safari – Days 1 & 2: Nairobi to Maasai Mara

Mike McHugh

Aug 6, 20212 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari – Days 1 & 2: Nairobi to Maasai Mara

Jambo! We had our kickoff meeting with our Contiki guide at 6:00 PM where I met my travel group for the next 2 weeks – an unusual, but...

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Contiki East Africa Safari: Day 1 – Nairobi

Mike McHugh

Aug 5, 20213 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari: Day 1 – Nairobi

Hello from Nairobi, or should I say Jambo? I landed in Nairobi right on time, to the minute, and we disembarked the plane to proceed to...

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Contiki East Africa Safari: On the Road Again

Mike McHugh

Aug 1, 20215 min read

Contiki East Africa Safari: On the Road Again

Hello from somewhere over Europe! It has been quite a while since I’ve updated my blog because, you know, COVID, but I am finally wheels...

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Australia & New Zealand – Days 12, 13, 14 & 15: The North Island

Mike McHugh

Jul 17, 20198 min read

Australia & New Zealand – Days 12, 13, 14 & 15: The North Island

We arrived into Auckland just before 11:00 PM and headed straight to our hotel, ordered a bit of room service & got to bed as soon as...

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Australia & New Zealand – Days 8, 9, 10 & 11: The South Island

Mike McHugh

Jul 11, 20195 min read

Australia & New Zealand – Days 8, 9, 10 & 11: The South Island

Over the last few days, we have traversed the South Island of New Zealand in what was more of a journey to view all the beauty this...

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Australia & New Zealand – Days 5, 6 & 7: The Australian Outback

Mike McHugh

Jul 8, 201913 min read

Australia & New Zealand – Days 5, 6 & 7: The Australian Outback

We arrived into Ayers Rock Airport shortly after 9:00 AM from Cairns. The first thing we noticed was there was a time zone shift of 30...

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Australia & New Zealand – Days 3 & 4: Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef

Mike McHugh

Jul 3, 20196 min read

Australia & New Zealand – Days 3 & 4: Cairns & The Great Barrier Reef

The past few days have been legendary. We arrived into Cairns airport from Sydney just after 9:00 AM, dropped our bags at our hotel in...

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Australia & New Zealand – Days 1 & 2: Sydney

Mike McHugh

Jul 1, 201911 min read

Australia & New Zealand – Days 1 & 2: Sydney

Hello from Australia! I flew down with my brother and father a few days ago for a whirlwind family trip through Australia and New Zealand...

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Mike McHugh

Oct 12, 20185 min read

Eurotrip 2018: Paris (Part II)

By the time we arrived back in Paris from Normandy, pretty much all the restaurants were closed so we wound up grabbing dinner at...

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Mike McHugh

Oct 9, 20187 min read

Eurotrip 2018: Normandy

The time was finally here – I have wanted to visit the beaches of Normandy since I learned about D-Day in middle school, but I was never...

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