So since I last updated on here we have been up to so much here in Kenyahhh! After our lovely weekend in Nyahururu, we had a busy week of work on the conservancy and managed to get lots of building done on our game hide and we also got cracking with the giraffe monitoring project. We basically sit in the jeep, drive around, find giraffes and collect photos and information on each one, its really good and I'd like to think I'm becoming a bit of an expert on how to identify the sex of a giraffe, the length of its tail and whether it is an adult or a juvenile! Next week (during our last week ARGHHH!) we're going to be writing up a report on our findings aswell as doing some habitat assessment around the conservancy that will be used by the conservancy as part of their research, it will definitely be a relief once thats over and done with! We've been spending a lot of time with Dominic and Mike, our two Kenyan guides on the conservancy who have been looking after us really well, Dom helps us with the hide building, he is literally the most enthusiastic man I've ever met, but he really is so lovely and he's ALWAYS happy, I never see him not smiling! Mike helps us with the giraffe monitoring, he is a ranger on the conservancy so he really knows his stuff, I'm definitely going to miss them when we have to leave Soysamsbu next week (where has the time gone really?! We've been here 3 weeks already!!) However, I will definitely miss Charles Macharia (MASH as we call him) the most! He's our main AV guide and I'm not sure if I've mentioned him before but if I have hes worth another mention. He's with us on our weekend in Nakuru this weekend, he really is the most lovely man and he really looks after us so well, I don't want to have to say goodbye to him, he has the biggest most cutest cheesest grin ever! So last week, we went to Gilgil (a nearby town) to go to a Children's home/orphanage and we also went again this week because we loved it so much! The first time that we went all the children at the orphanage (young and old!) did a performance for us that they were supposed to be performing to visitors later that day, they did hiphop and R N B dancing aswell as reading poems and singing, I was so impressed with how talented they all are, I joined in with a lot of the dancing and they taught me their rountines which was really good fun! I was also pleasantly surprised by the lifestyle that the kids who live at the orphanage have, they are really well looked after, are fed properly and wear really nice clothes! We got given ugali and cabbage for lunch (an african favourite), not mine particularly though! We also went to visit some hot springs near to the conservancy but they were a big let down, they were not hot at all!!
Last weekend, we had in my opinion what was our best weekend yet, we spent it in the brilliant capital city of Nairobi, and we stayed in a place called Milimani backpackers which was really good! We spent the whole of easter weekend there so everywhere was really busy and bustling! On friday night, we went to this bar called Black Diamond where there were a lot of mzungus and it was really good fun! We also got the chance to do lots of shopping at all the markets in Nairobi, I spent far too much but bought some nice clothes which I definitely need! We also went to the famous Massai market where everyone bought lots of souvenirs for friends and family. We also took a very cultural trip to the cinema to see Just Go With It! On saturday night, we went to carnivore!! I was literally in heaven, it was so expensive but definitely worth it, its in the top 50 best restaurants in the world, the 2nd best in Kenya and it lived up to its name! I have never eaten so much meat in my whole life, I felt so sick afterwards, you have a flag in the middle of your table that you keep up and as long as you have it up the waiters will keep coming and coming with these huge skewers full with every type of meat possibly, and you eat and eat and eat until you literally can't eat anything else! We ate all the usual meats (lamb, beef, pork, turkey, chicken, sausages, ribs) and then some more exotic but not so nice meat (crocodile, ostrich meat balls, ox tails, ox hearts, liver, camel) They also bring side orders along with all these meat so you can imagine how sick I was feeling afterwards but it was sooo good, I would go back anyday!! So that was our weekend in Nairobi, one to remember!
So this week we went to the orphanage again, and played lots of games with all the little kids which they really seemed to enjoy, and did some more dancing again with some of the kids I danced with last time. Then, the older boys did an acrobatics show for us which was so impressive, they really are so strong! After going to the orphanage yesterday morning, we then we to a restaurant to watch the royal wedding on television, afterall we couldn't miss it! We then went to another restaurant for tea to a Nyama Choma where I ate so much chicken and beef along with chips and Kienjei (don't know how you spell it!) So this was yesterday, we had a really good day, and we drove back in the dark through the conservancy expecting a quite and early night only to come back to find our kitchen tent had been totally trashed by baboons. We found a whole in the top of the tent where they must have got in, literally all the food had been stolen or eaten, they ate all our eggs including the shells, all the chairs were all over the floor as well as all the trunks containing our food, cutlery and plates, literally it looked like a bomb site, we couldn't believe it but I couldn't help laughing at the same time! The place absolutely stunk, there must have been loads of them as there was baboon poo everywhere and one of them had even decided to have a poo in the bowl of vegetable stew...lovely! They managed to break a lot of things, and it took us so long to clean and tidy everything up, they had also emptied the whole bin aswell as all the rubbish over by the fire, thankfully its the weekend so we can buy more food for next week now but lets just hope they don't come again!! As I said we're in Nakuru this weekend, well just for tonight, just going to look round some markets now, do some supermarket shopping to buy some snacks for free travel!! I can't belive we start free travel next week, I am so excited! We've got it all planned out now, slight change of plan now though, I'm no longer trekking kili as it's far too expensive so instead the rest of us are travelling down the Kenyan coast, which I'm sure will be amazing and at least I'll get a better tan! This time in a week I will be bungee jumping, white water rafting, quad biking and jet boating in uganda down the nile.... cannot wait!
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