Back in Kenya

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The first leg of our tour has come to an end, and we've lost 12 of the people from it, we pick up another 14 tomorrow as we make our way to Tanzania, as long as there aren't too many Aussies included all should be fine, the Americans seem quite shy in comparison to the bread thieves!

Since our last entry we visited the Genocide museum in Kigali, it's pretty powerful stuff and in the end we were both pretty glad to leave. The history behind it is incredible.

We then left Rwanda and headed to Uganda, spending a couple of nights in the capital, Kampala, whilst we were there we went to a wildlife sanctuary, in preparation for the big drives in Kenya and Tanzania!
Oddly, having spent a while in the park, the group of us that were there (9 in total) became more of a feature than the Rhino's and Lions. The schoolkids all wanted their picture taken with a white person, it seems strange as we're not by any means the only ones here, and Uganda has plenty of ex-pats, anyway, we posed and the kids paid the photographer to take the pictures!

Presumably the kids went home to tell their parents that they'd seen Rhino, Buffalo, White Man, Rhino and Chimpanzee at the zoo.

After Kampala we headed to Jinja, the source of the River Nile, we went white water rafting, which was pretty hairy at times, we only flipped over once though, but the power of the water in the rapids is unbelievable.

We spent a few nights in Jinja, and on the second day Rhian went to help paint a local school, Lee spent the day wandering around nursing an injured heel following a dance related injury.

After Jinja we headed back into Kenya, were we went on our first game drive in the Lake Nakuru National Park.
It was amazing, we saw 4 of the Big 5, Lions, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino. that was on top of the Giraffes, Zebra, Gazelle and many others. We saw a Buffalo that had recently been killed by a pride of Lions and the Lions sleeping nearby, apparently they'll go back to their feast when they've slept off the first course.

We were able to get within a few metres of the Rhino, they are awesome, massive animals.

The next day we went to Hells Gate National Park, Lee on Bike, Rhian by taxi! Here there were Giraffe, Gazelle, Buffalo and Eagles, some Leopards apparently but they are night hunters, otherwise the bike option may have seemed a touch unrealistic.

The park is famous for its volcanic activity and in the gorge the water runs through the rocks into small waterfalls that are almost too hot to touch, given the shower facilities of some campsites, I (Lee) decided to utilise natures own shower to sort my increasingly large mop of hair out, I've also not shaved since 23 July and it still looks a mess.

We came into Nairobi yesterday and this morning went to the Elephant orphanage to see all the baby Elephants, we found out that the elephant Rhian sponsors has already been released back into the wild in the South of Kenya, so we weren't able to see him, but the others were really cute and we watched them feed for about an hour.

Tomorrow we head to Tanzania and the great Serengeti!

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Comments

[Andy solman]

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I can't believe you have been charged for an elephant they are not looking after. The least the elephant could gave done was to write to you and let you know of his impending freedom and leave a forwarding address!