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African travel tips when visiting Kenya

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Kenya is the land that has given birth to the most popular African activity among tourists, namely the safari, and it is easy to see why. Blessed with tremendous topographic diversity that spans four climatic zones and features coral reefs, desert landscapes, volcanoes, and snow-capped mountains, Kenya has it all in one.

Inhabiting these diverse landscapes and wilderness areas is Kenya’s world-famous wildlife, which can be viewed on horseback, in a 4×4 vehicle, on a terrace or on foot. There are more than 1,000 species of birds and huge colonies of colorful butterflies. Also attractive is the rich history, dating back to the Stone Age, and the diverse cultures expressed through the coveted arts and crafts.

So whether you’re lounging on the white sandy beaches of exotic Mombasa or watching the world’s greatest wildlife spectacle, the annual wildebeest migration, you’re sure to have a world-class experience.

CAPITAL:

Nairobi

AIR CONDITIONED:

There are four climatic zones: tropical, equatorial, semi-desert and desert. Only two seasons are identified, namely dry and rainy. Due to the differences in altitude and topography of the various regions, these seasons and temperatures are not uniform and vary widely. However, in general the climate is hot and humid on the coast, cool and humid in the central highlands, and hot and dry in the north and east.

BADGE:

The official currency is the Kenyan shilling. Traveler’s checks are widely accepted and credit cards are accepted by many hotels, travel agencies, safari companies and restaurants. Foreign currency, such as US dollars, British pounds, and German marks, can be exchanged at banks, exchange offices, and authorized hotels. There are no restrictions on the amount of foreign currency that can be brought into Kenya, but taking more than 500,000 Kenyan shillings out requires written authorization from the Central Bank. Prior to departure, travelers are advised to convert any excess Kenyan shillings into foreign currency at a bank or bureau de change. Departure taxes can be paid in local or foreign currency.

ELECTRICITY:

220/240 volts, 50 Hz. Plugs are 3-pin square.

HEALTH:

Yellow fever vaccination is recommended if the traveler comes from an infected country or area. Visitors are also advised to take pre-arrival precautions against typhoid fever, hepatitis A, polio, malaria, and meningitis, depending on the area visited and time of year. Other health problems include cholera, rabies, the Nairobi beetle (do not touch, threaten or kill), dysentery and diarrhoea.

IDIOM:

English is the official language, but Kiswahili is the national language.

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS:

New Year’s Day (January 1); Good Friday (09 Apr); Easter Monday (April 12); Labor Day (May 1); Madaraka Day (June 1); Me Day (October 10); Kenyatta Day (October 20); End of Ramadan (November 14); Independence Day (December 12); Christmas Day (December 25); Boxing Day (December 26)

SHOPPING:

Traditional artifacts, beaded jewelry and decorative items, wood and soapstone animal carvings, furniture, coffee, gemstones, furniture, Khanga and Kikoy fabrics, musical instruments, modern art, basketry eg Sisal Kiondoo/Chondo baskets, Maasai Shukka blankets, ‘Thousand Miler Sandals, ‘elephant hair’ bracelets.

SOCIAL AGREEMENTS:

The culture here is a mix of the modern and the traditional, with European habits prevailing throughout the country. Kenyans are a very friendly nation and you can dress casual for most occasions.

TIME DIFFERENCE:

GMT+3

TIPS:

It’s not mandatory. Guides, drivers, waiters and hotel staff may receive tips at their discretion.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TEN BEST ATTRACTIONS:

Masai Mara:

National Reserve The most famous Game Reserve in the world due to the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle over this vast plain that offers breathtaking views; home to a profusion of wildlife and birds; Activities include excellent year-round game viewing, hot air ballooning, and bird watching.

Tsavo East and West:

The twin national parks of Tsavo, totaling 10 million acres of wilderness, form the largest National Park in Kenya, making it ideal for those who enjoy solitude; of the two Tsavo West is the most visited; In addition to wildlife and birds, visit Lugard Falls, the Mzima Volcanic Springs, and a unique underwater observatory.

Mombasa:

One of the most exotic tropical ports in the world with a turbulent history. Visit the magnificent Fort Jesus and the port, see the Moorish architecture in the old town and smell the aroma of spices. Many excellent temples and mosques can be explored including Shiva Temple, Baluchi Mosque and Dawoodi Bohra Mosque. Also don’t miss Mombasa National Marine Park, Moi Avenue Gateway Arch, dhow cruises and beaches.

Amboseli National Park:

One of the most popular national parks in Kenya with a wide range of accommodation; the landscape is dominated by Mount Kilimanjaro and the park is famous for its big game and scenic beauty; bird life is abundant.

Lake Nakuru National Park:

Famous for its flamingos and very popular with bird watchers and other nature lovers. Make the most of the viewpoint and visit the Euphobia forest.

Mount Kenya National Park:

The country is named after Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa. For mountaineers and hikers, it offers easy and challenging ascents with magnificent scenic beauty. The local tribes believe that it is the home of Ngai (God). A number of unique, rare and endangered species can be found here and there is abundant bird life.

The mu:

A tranquil tropical island with a fascinating history, one that can be explored in the winding streets of its medieval stone town, a World Heritage Site in part because it is the oldest and best preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa.

Lake Turkana National Parks:

The three national parks serve as stopovers for migratory waterfowl and are major breeding grounds for the Nile crocodile, hippopotamus, and a variety of venomous snakes. Turkana is noted for the study of plant and animal communities and the Koobi Fora fossil deposits have contributed more to the understanding of paleoenvironments than any other site in Africa, it is also the most saline of the great African lakes and a World Heritage site.

Aberdare National Park:

A must for landscape lovers where you can see spectacular mountains, waterfalls, rainforest, trout streams, moorland, giant heather thickets, caves, abundant bird life, duikers, the black rhino and the elusive and rare Bongo , a forest antelope. This area is ideal for hikes, picnics, trout fishing, camping, and night game viewing.

Mount Elgon National Park:

One of the most beautiful and unspoilt areas in Kenya where you can find giant trees, around 400 animals, more than 240 species of birds and ‘cave elephants’ that go into the four caves at night to feed on the rich deposits of Salt. Mount Elgon is also a famous botanical town with a wealth of Afro-Alpine flowers. Hot springs occur and sport fishing is popular on the Suam River.

Technology

Automate Twitter to send hundreds of new friends to your Facebook account

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I’ll show you how to automate Twitter to send hundreds, even thousands of new friends to your Facebook account. So how different is Twitter from Facebook?

Simply, Facebook is a very different platform. It allows us to interact more with our friends and their friends, thus multiplying our marketing efforts, while Twitter is a pretty static platform, but you can achieve a certain viral effect on Twitter when people retweet your tweets.

First you will need to open a Twitter and Facebook account

We will also need to join Social Oomph, this is also free, type Social Oomph in Google search to get the web address.

Once you have your Twitter account up and running and have put information about yourself on your profile, what you do, etc., put a nice photo of yourself on your profile and include your URL on your Squeeze page, website, or blog.

We’ll be using Twitter and Facebook to grow our list, so any URL you put on your profile should point somewhere where you have a signup form.

But first things first, we first need to automate our Twitter friend collection efforts. For this, we will use automation software like Tweet Adder, just Google Tweet Adder.

I have been using this software for several months. I only suggest as Niche for the software to search. Find people on Twitter who tweet about this niche.

Then I can set it up to follow people automatically. Once you follow people, they will start following you. What you have now is a set of ready friends, all on autopilot.

Now, following people on Twitter is not a guarantee that they will choose to follow you. In fact, there will probably always be a 10-20% difference in the number of people you choose to follow, compared to the number of people who actually follow you. You will almost always follow more people than follow you. This is fine, this keeps Twitter happy, I’ll explain it in more detail in Part 2.

So we’ve got our Twitter account set up and now we’re targeting people who like or tweet about internet marketing to be our friends.

Next we go to Facebook. We set up our account and put a nice photo on our profile, preferably one of you smiling. Now you can place a photo of you or you and your partner.

If possible, make it a happy smile, as you’ll want to add value to your visitors’ experience, and a miserable face with tombstone black teeth just doesn’t cut it in the fast-paced world of internet marketing (lol)… people want be friends with happy positive people

Having an attractive personality says a lot about you to potential friends. Inbound marketing is the most important thing right now and it’s all about interacting with your prospects, sharing information with them and getting to know them properly.

Okay, in the box under your profile picture, we put up a short bio about what we do, maybe something like this: this is my short bio:

“I’ll show you how to succeed in making all the money you could ever want!” I then follow it up with a link to my landing page.

You don’t need to say much here as you have plenty of chances to tell everyone about yourself and what you are like on your real profile. Use your profile space wisely if you are in the internet marketing business, or any other business, and are trying to attract friends who may be prospects for your business.

People can see your photos, they can see your videos and comments, so if you’re using Facebook for professional purposes, it’s best to keep it professional. First impressions are very important. It’s great to show your family photos, but if you have embarrassing photos on your profile, it might be worth removing them.

Before I explain the “Meat and potatoes” of how to do this. We are going to focus on Twitter for a moment, now some people don’t particularly like Twitter as it is considered impersonal unlike social networking sites like Facebook.

Twitter tends to be more of a messaging system, rather than a true social platform; Unfortunately people on Twitter don’t tend to interact much, my Twitter Newsfeed is more like a continuous feed of spammy links interspersed with the occasional piece of interesting news.

I can’t say I really know, any more than a handful of my Twitter followers. I don’t blame them, I blame myself as I should be messaging them more and getting to know them. By uploading them to Facebook, in my opinion, we have a better platform to do it.

So what we’re going to do here is take as many of our Twitter followers as possible and turn them into our Facebook friends.

This gives us the opportunity to interact with them appropriately and to cultivate better relationships; this will lead to better networking opportunities with people we probably never would have gotten to know very well.

OK, so we have our Twitter account up and running, we also have our Facebook account open.

Now we need to get our free Social Oomph account up and running: log in and do the following:

There are many more features in Social Oomph that I am explaining here today. Because getting into all the features of Social Oomph is beyond

the scope of this advice today. It would take an entire article just to explain all the other great features of the Social Oomph app.

Social Oomph will allow you to do some cool things like embed your blog posts into your social networks automatically, follow your Twitter followers automatically, etc., etc.

If you want, you can also upgrade to the Pro version, which has many more great features. But to be honest, I prefer FREE… it’s cheaper! (LOL)

For the purposes of today’s tip, we’re going to use the “Direct Messages” feature. Once you’ve logged into your account, you’ll see this on your back office home page, which is in the middle of the left hand side of the page, in the blue shaded panels.

Click on “Direct Messages”

Once you’ve added your Twitter account(s) to Social Oomph, you’ll now be able to send direct messages to all of your followers; You can also do it directly through your Twitter account, but unless you automate this, it can take forever to reach ALL of them.

However, with Social Oomph, you can send a fully automated message to each of your Twitter followers. And to any followers you have from now on. – EVERYTHING on AUTOMATIC PILOT.

What I do is I INVITE my Twitter followers to join me as a friend on Facebook. In this way, I can get to know them properly and interact with them.

Now you are going to add your personal direct message, here is what you need to do. Go to “Direct Message” and then “Schedule New DM”

This is the message I use:

Let’s be friends on Facebook. I love connecting with interesting people ~ Keith (include your company URL here) now your direct message to them will not have a clickable hyperlink, currently the Twitter DM feature does not allow that, however , if you want to be your friend, you should cut and paste the link in your browser. You can add a note to the message to explain this.

You see, it’s kind of hard to say NO to that request, isn’t it? – Who doesn’t want to be considered “interesting”?

Now once you have sent this message via Oomph social to all your followers (don’t worry if you don’t have any yet)

then you can set it up automatically, to send the message to all your NEW followers too, using the automation menu.

Here’s a great tutorial to show you how to do this, step by step.

Therefore, many of your Twitter followers will become your Facebook friends. All on autopilot.

If you then click on “Social Accounts” in the left-hand panel, then under “Automation Statistics”, you can see exactly how many followers you have.

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Business

Example of an aptitude test to reveal the hidden

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Today, there are many types of psychological tests like personality tests, aptitude tests, and stress tests that you can take to assess the cognitive aspect of your personality, which defines your true self. If you are a person interested in knowing your real potential, you can go through an aptitude test example. This helps to derive the crux of the actual psychological aptitude test.

There are several questions that may come to mind when you think about taking this test or group of psychometric tests. These questions may include:

  • Do I have to take the aptitude test?
  • How will it be important to me?
  • When should I take it?
  • What is the preparation method?

You will anticipate several thoughts as you decide to perform these performance tests. But, once you’ve done your assessment and your real profile appears in front of you, you’ll realize the value of these brilliant tests. In addition to this, an aptitude test example helps you prepare for intellectual psychological investigations. The role of standardization as well as validation is significant in these tests.

When these psychometric investigations are being conducted, an association is created with the individual taking the test through the presentation of various types of impulses. These may include images, audio sound, writing, smell, video, etc. This association activates specific neuronal junctions along with synapses, which aids in the testing process.

The approaches applied in psychological tests are highly rational and use authentic associations to obtain the results. Altered and uncensored neurological associations offer a deeper understanding of an individual’s personality. These associations that are formed through impulses react through colors. It is after this that the responses of a person in relation to the norms are evaluated and a picture of his psychological characters develops.

The assessment methods of these aptitude tests use an individual’s reaction to colors. Words also play an important role in the whole process. Each color has a frequency wave that defines it and a person’s mind reacts to this frequency. This diagnostic method uses colors to identify the associations that the examinee’s mind forms when reacting to an impulse. This study of associative bonds discloses the psychological dynamics of an individual and helps to find precise answers.

In fact, it is a successful method to improve the quality of life and thousands of people are using it all over the world. What are you still waiting for?

Home Kitchen

Expert Tips: Choosing Paint Colors for Interior Walls

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There is something magical about painting your house. First of all, it is incredibly cheap. You can almost completely transform the way guests feel when they walk through your front door for an investment of less than $100 in paint and necessary materials.

And secondly, the paint is powerful. When you choose the right color, you make everything in your home sing. But that’s the hard part. Choosing paint colors for interior walls is difficult, and often feels like you’re flying blind in front of a plethora of swatches at the hardware store.

To help you make the best decision for your home, here’s a guide to choosing interior wall paint colors in different rooms.

Oh, one final note: different houses open up to different rooms. Keep this in mind when choosing paint colors for interior walls. Regardless of which room your visitors enter for the first time, you want it to be bold and beautiful without going overboard. That room is usually the living room, so that’s where we’ll start, but pay more attention to the first impression room in your home.

Living room

What matters when choosing a paint color for your living room? Start with these three things:

  1. Natural light

  2. furniture color

  3. Spacing

If your room is filled with natural light, you can get away with more earthy tones that add a dark complement to the sunbeams pouring through the windows during the day. If you have almost no natural light, look for something lighter.

Also, use your living room paint to balance it out with your furniture. You want your living room to include one primary color and two accent colors. For example, you can have a big, bold rug that creates the primary color. Then use your furniture and walls as accents. Or, you can have a beautiful painting above your mantel that makes a nice accent. Then you can use the furniture as another accent and the wall paint as your main color. No matter how you divide things up, balance is key.

Also, consider the spacing. A lighter paint color can make a small, cramped living room seem larger. You definitely don’t want a cramped living room with little natural light to also feature dark, earthy paint colors.

Kitchen

You have many opportunities to provide splashes of color in your kitchen: wall hangings, curtains, tea towels, granite, and even a fun mixer. That’s why I usually prefer a nice neutral gray for my kitchen. (I’ve always had a crush on Dorian Gray, but that’s just me.) Find the right gray and you’ll have a nice palette to add fun pops of color to.

Not in neutral? Well, that’s totally understandable. Bolder options for the kitchen might include yellow, green, or blue. Green is quite versatile when paired with brighter accent colors, and yellow is like bringing sunshine into your home. Blue is good if your kitchen is filled with neutral tea towels, granite, curtains, etc.

Looking to be really bold in the kitchen? Pass the paint on and be part of the return of wallpaper. I’m not quite there yet, but…

bedroom

If you’re like me, you don’t do much in the bedroom other than read a book, get ready for work, and rest. (Okay, there’s the other thing, too, but let’s stay on topic.) With that in mind, make your bedroom the perfect place to rest by using calming and relaxing paint colors.

What colors are calming and relaxing? Try lavender, a soft green, or an icy blue. I know many homeowners can’t help but put a bolder stamp on their walls. If you’re tempted to go for a stronger bedroom color, do it in a guest room or a child’s room. These are the perfect space to be a little more adventurous.

bath

Bathrooms often have little to no natural light. If anything, you might have a frosted window, but most bathrooms don’t have windows.

With that in mind, go to the hardware store and buy lighter colors in the blue-gray family – this is the best range for bathroom colors. Take the samples home and place them on the floor to see how they work with lighting and your tile, hardwood or vinyl floor.

I have used this method in the past, and a sample has always caught my eye. I wish you the same success! But then again, along with the kitchen, the bathroom is another place where you can get away with trying some fun wallpaper, especially a half bathroom.

Final Thoughts on Choosing Interior Wall Paint Colors

I say it many times, but: rules are meant to be broken. Throw everything I’ve written here out the window if it leads you to paint colors you just don’t like. Always stay true to your personal taste, and you won’t go wrong.