The State Department raised the threat/travel advisory level to a Level 3 for Kenya - reconsider travel, and there are several Do Not Travel areas within the country including areas of Nairobi.
wow, thanks; something to keep an eye on…
The only new part of the STEP change is because of a few people who have contracted Ebola who had travels from I can’t recall, think it was the Congo. This happened years ago before we went to Kenya and people canceled right left and center which made our group smaller. All the other risks are not new. Another time, we were in Tanzania with Tauck and there had been a terrorist bombing in Arusha a few days before we arrived. Tauck never told the group about it but we had seen it on the news before we left. TheTD asked us all to carry our passports and medicines on the safari vehicles while out on drives, that had never happened before or since. I’m convinced it was for a quick evacuation if something else happened but she never explained and other guests did not know about the bombing. I suspect if others read this, they will cancel their trips. Others do not obey suggestions about not wearing expensive jewelry, we always see Rolex watches and lots of diamonds on guests there. We leave ours at home. if it was me, I would still go to Kenya, unless the threat becomes a level 4 before you go, you will be covered with the Tauck insurance. Interestingly, the remaining three tours on K and T say call for details, so maybe Tauck called people. Yet the one with the add on Gorilla tour is mostly sold out. If SeaLord was still around, I think he would have said the same.
