Oakwood Hotel Nairobi

... The one little girl started crying though, and I was trying to ask her what was wrong, and Beth told me that she is sick.. I asked with what, kind of knowing the answer, and Beth goes "with AID". "Today is a bad day" she told me. Poor little girl. <br><br> When we got home last night the power was off. Something that happens quite often here I guess. It was off from 2pm yesterday until this afternoon. We read by candle light and ate by lantern. We ...

... to get there avoiding Arusha and it&#8217;s traffic completely. During the drive Gabe finished the book "We Need to Talk About Kevin" probably the most read and talked about book on the truck. It was fantastic, and we would all hold our breath as someone came near the end, anticipating their agitated and excited remarks when they finished.<br><br>Our Kenya visa was pretty cool, although it took up an entire page of my precious dwindling ...

... for the evening. There was a little miscommunication though as he started to drive us to our host family... wayyyy out of the way and not near our hotel. But we made it to the hotel eventually and had a very good sleep!<br><br> This morning Denise and I woke up for a buffet breakfast at the hotel, and were met again by David and this time we were actually going to go to our host family in Lenana ...

... of Born Free fame. The entry fee includes afternoon tea (with a chance to see black-and-white colobus monkeys).<br><br>Unfortunately even though I wanted to see Elsamere, the times aren't right and I have to head off to Nairobi via Naivasha. 2hrs in a matatu with speakers blaring Kenyan pop songs with dance videos followed by a 30min taxi ride, I finally arrived at Karen Camp (Overland Camp) for the night.<br><br>Dist cov. = km<br>

... under their care. Any of the elphant or rhinocerous are able to be fostered for $50 USD. You will recieve a pack with a certificate, a watercolour picture, and a magazine about the Trust. You can also get a little picture card of your elephant (or in my case another elephant as Kilaguni didn't have one yet. You will also recieve updates about your foster animal via email. For more information check out their ...

... any hospital. He said it was probably $60 for the shot and $20 each way to the airport. $100 I thought? That sure sucks! I went and found a taxi to take me to the airport and I asked my way to the "clinic." I asked the lady if I could only get the card only and not the shot. She said that wasn't possible without the shot. I said okay and told her to give me the shot. Yellow Fever is a 10-year shot and I've either been vaccinated 2 years ago or 9 years ...

... you can think of...nearly. Apparently it was on eof the best safari days you could have.<br><br>Was beautiful - the africa from the movies. Our safari vehicle nearly tipped a couple times and apparently some people died 2 weeks ago when their vehicle tipped.<br><br>Back in Nairobi now and heading to Tanzania tomorrow.<br><br>Pics soon.

... gate into the now busy Nairobi streets packs on and me freaking out that we would be robbed any minute. Welcome to Nairobi! We walked about 20 minutes not seeing any other white people and found ourselves nearer the city centre thankfully and Wayne got some directions and we headed to the Terminal Hotel which is where I had originally wanted to go as was recommended by my Lonely planet bible but with no email we couldn&#8217;t book it before coming here. Finally we ...

... to the Masai Market in downtown Nairobi. All the vendors gather in one area with their goods-jewelry, art, clothing, carvings, musical instruments, imported goods, and they barter with you. True to African form they call you as you walk by:"Pretty lady, looking is free! Touching is free, too!", "Seester, seester, come to my store!". It's so much fun. And the whole thing is bartering. You ask how much, they tell you, you act appalled by the price ...

... apparently a pipe has broken so we have no idea when we&#8217;re getting it back. The huge bins that they normally store water in to last us until the weekend are almost empty, so I guess we&#8217;ll have to start buying water after that. Our host brother, Peter, says the problem with that is you have no idea where that water comes from. The drought is becoming a double problem because apparently most of Kenya&#8217;s electricity is hydroelectric, so ...