Kenyan Safari - Part I

On May 29, I woke up all packed and ready to leave for my kenyan safari.... I trip we had all been discussing and planning for over a year, only to hear at ten a.m. that my international flight on Air India from Bombay to Nairobi had been cancelled! Imagine my disbelief... An INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT... reduced to the state of Air Deccan! After a long process, finally my flight was routed through Kenya Airways. All this happened in a span of four hours and instead of leaving at midnight I had to leave at six p.m.

When we left home and ten mins from the airport I got a call warning me about a potential bomb scare in Bombay Airport. After so much confusion there was no turning back. So I proceeded to Bombay, still a little tense about how the day was going to turn out.

I landed at Bombay at eleven p.m. at the domestic terminal and had to carry my baggage to the international terminal. On the bus from one terminal to another, we took a route through the "backstage" of teh airport. I watched amazed at the intracies of the functioning of the airport. The amount of work that goes into making sure each and every passenger has a safe and comfortable journey.

Then I boarded the flight to Kenya, and after a long and uneventful ( thankfully! ) flight I landed at Nairobi International Airport at six thirty am local time...