Quick Update from Kenya
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006The last two weeks have been amazing filled with beautiful scenery, people and animals in Tanzania which is an absolutely amazing country and in Kenya. Unfortunately, time constraints are going to get me away from the computer and out in the streets of Nairobi before heading off to Zambia tomorrow. I will probably not have any contact for the next twelve days and depending on where I am located in Uganda for the three week farm volunteering stint, I may have no contact until July 31st when I arrive in Kigali, Rwanda. I can tell you that I highly recommend Tanzania for safaris and vacation and I wish I had more time in Kenya to say if it is as good as Tanzania. Although the thought of staying in Nairobi concerned me, I can say that it seems like a very decent city. The group safari in Tanzania was a lot of fun meeting a great group of people. The visit to the Barabaig tribe is still playing through my mind and I will share a lot of that at a later date. As far as animals, the highlights were a leopard in a tree preparing and eating a gazelle, lions using our vehicle for shade, two black rhinos, a leopard coming down from a tree right in front of us stopping half way down with its body twisted around the trunk and giving us a look that was absolutely terrifying, lion cubs, three cheetahs eating a wildebeest, vultures tearing out the stomach of a dead buffalo, birds galore, a bull elephant charge, hippos belching, having sex and running across the grasslands. My head is spinning over it all and now I am wondering what a walking safari in Zambia is really all about. I need to get some video tapes, pens and hard candy for the kids and make some CDs from the Kenya photos. Hopefully I will be able to tell you about Zanzibar before my flight leaves tomorrow morning.
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