Day One-Nairobi. Laughs with Giraffes!

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Day one in Nairobi - and so it begins...

We think they were breaking us in gently - day one turned into a nice easy day meeting some giraffe! Just as well as Nairobi was hectic enough - guards with guns, the excitement of changing money in a very strange bank/mini prison, going to the supermarket... all very thrilling for Africa virgins. Everything was fascinating. The storks in the trees stood out - enormous great ugly things hanging there in the treetops above the city, flapping about like something prehistoric.










The giraffe were sweet and very pretty in a long-lashed, doe-eyed kind of way. They had long, grey, slobbery, scratchy tongues which they probed out a long way trying to get more pellets from us. 'Kissing' one felt bristly (my giraffe did not slobber, thankfully!). After we had had enough of feeding giraffe we decided to brave the great unknown and walk the distance back to camp (about 40 mins), despite no one having really paid attention to the route on the way to the sanctuary. Still, we made it and enjoyed the walk very much. It was suburban Nairobi, sort of, quite rural but not too much so. Quite a lot of people were around but no one paid us much attention, apart from a few kids. We only got slightly lost and made it back to camp safely, feeling most exhilerated, whereupon we cracked open some Savannahs and started celebrating our first proper night in Africa, with the help of a terminal 18-30 rep called Jason and lots of Sambuca. Skol! (Also our last night of smoking - pact made, cigarettes handed over to Patrick, so far feeling good!)

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Photos

Nairobi street 1
9.30 am on the first day of our trip

Nairobi street 2
On the way to the Giraffe sanctuary

Wildlife
Storks in the streets

Giraffe28
In the full size picture you can clearly see a string of spit....

Giraffe 29
No tongues this time