Hotel Greton Nairobi

... day rooms for us until we left for our flights (we arrived at the hotel about 12:30 and had 7 hours to relax, repack {we were reunited with our big luggage after several days], and eat, which was pretty much the only real thing on our agenda besides getting to and from airports.

· First we lunched, which was quite wonderful, with a seafood salad and other exotic international ...

... back into protecting these critically endangered animals, whose populations have been severely reduced by poaching and encroachment of land. Chad and I were in a group leaving the 3rd morning, and though everyone who went before us was careful not to talk about their experiences, we could tell from their bursting smiles that they had not been disappointed.

In the days leading up to our trek, we visited a local orphanage and played and sang ...

... and Martin from Ireland, Rosie, Emma, Tiffany, Victoria, Charlotte, Vanisha, Sophia from England, Donna and Chris from Scotland, Heidi, Sarah and Lauren from Australia. The full team wasn't there yet as more people where flying in that night.

Initially, everyone was shy but soon after introductions it seemed like a friendly bunch. It seems like there was going to be a lot more women than men on this trip, which didn't seem too bad ...

... all the difference when you know what you are looking at. There were only four passengers in the van, so there was ample room to mo ve around and take photos. The tops pop up so one can stand up and get a better view. We went on three game drives and say an array of animals, including zebras, giraffes, elephants, hippos, crocodiles, impala, dik-diks (the smallest antelope), topi, warthogs, cheetahs, lions, a jackal, vultures, gazelle ...

... with us (he also told us all
about the hippo), we had dinner at the bar and enjoyed a nice cold Tusker. Yum!
The next morning, I woke up at about 5AM, and took a walk around the campground
to see if the hippos were out. At night, they come out of the lake to graze on
the lawn, but don’t worry- there is an electric fence between the lake and the
tents at night (hippos are the most dangerous animal here, followed by
crocodiles). The sunrise ...

... on screens, photos and artifacts including some bones of the slain, as well as machetes, clubs and other implements of murder are also displayed. It is very sobering visit to make; the museum is quite well done.

The second section of the museum is about genocide in general using examples from Armenia, Cambodia, and Bosnia.

The third section is a children's memorial which humanizes the ...

... awe of the natural scenery and also enjoyed people watching. We saw many women balancing large boxes or containers on their heads wearing their colorful attire with babies strapped to their backs. Vendors ran to the windows of the bus carrying baskets of golden mangos on their heads and bottles of fresh milk. Men worked in the fields and pushed large overloaded carts along the roads. Children waved to the moving buses, many of them carrying their younger siblings on ...