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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hanno" data-source="post: 433303" data-attributes="member: 131">I second Jos here. I grew up in Kenya, back in the old days when safety wasn't an issue (at least on the coast). Now, you have to be very, very careful. I got jumped at my mom's place a couple of years ago. She owns holiday cottages on the South Coast, and hears almost weekly about somebody getting robbed. Those Dudes will not hesitate to use their knifes, either.Having said that, you'll be perfectly OK inside the hotel grounds. Also try and organize a trip to Arube Sokoke Forest, not too far from there, or Shimba Hills on the South Coast.Next time I go back, I will confine all my birding to National Parks. They also have predators, but it is the two-legged kind I find really scary.</blockquote>