Tanzania Experience: Week 10 at School

This week went to Nairobi to see:

David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/

Giraffe Sanctuary http://giraffecenter.org/

Kazuri Beads

Karen Blixen Gardens

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Megan's visit was great and we ended up going out for dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. On Thursday we attended a St Jude's volunteer BBQ with Megan.

This has been a week of events. We received our first visitor, Megan, went for dinner Tuesday and Wednesday, had a Volunteer BBQ on Thursday, the Friday we headed off to Nairobi for the weekend.

The trip to Nairobi was 2.5hrs longer than planned so I missed my meeting with Microsoft. Traffic in Nairobi on a Friday afternoon is the worst traffic I've seen anywhere. I think we were stopped for longer than we were moving once we got about 10km from the centre of Nairobi, and guess where we were staying, in the centre.

The roads were good apart from the border crossing which is a rough track for about 2kms on the Kenyan side.

Today was a public holiday in Kanya celebrating 50 years of independence and luckily the traffic was very light so we made our first stop at the bead shop before it opened.

Next stop was the elephant orphanage. I will let the picture do the talking.

After that we went for lunch where I found heaven. Free wifi, the Qld Reds were playing the Rebels (Rugby Union for the uninitiated), and a hamburger. Unfortunately they changed channel to watch the 50yr presentation, but then changed it to the NBA. When they realised I was the only one watching the TV it went back to the Reds game.

Next was the giraffes. Once again I will let the pictures tell the story.