Friday Jan 21, 2011 I day of Safari to Sweetwaters Game Reserve, Rift Valley Kenya After our enthralling first day in Nairobi we decided to leave earlier than scheduled for our Safari in the Sweetwaters Game Reserve Park. George picked us up at 8 am from our hotel and we left Nairobi on our African Safari. We hit the morning Nairobi traffic and the traffic seemed disorganized. It appeared that Nairobi (and later we found most of Kenya) preferred roundabouts/turnabouts to traffic signals. There was a lot of roadside construction, which George informed us were the Chinese companies building flyovers to alleviate the traffic situation in Nairobi. The construction zone extended to something close to 10 km. Our itinerary listed the drive time to Sweetwaters as 3 hours but George informed us that it was close
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