Elephants and giraffes

Had agreed with the taxi driver the other night that he would come and pick us up for Elephant park and Giraffe farm this morning - at 10. Not that it was going to happen. This is after all Africa - and Africa has Africa-time. But to our surprise we met with Felix at 10:00 outside the gate. His was the black Mzungu.

Of to the elephant park where we enjoyed an hour of elephant orphans being fed, playing with each other and finally taking a nice swim in their pool. Then we headed on to the Giraffe farm where we could hand-feed the giraffe. Malene got a big snug from one of the giraffe.

Our plan was to have Felix drive us to the Yaya center so we could have lunch there but it seemed that our taxi was a bit tired. When we looked into it we could see most of the dashboard missing and wires everywhere. It turned out there was a small problem but Felix was sure he could solve it there in the parking lot. So when we came back from the souvenir shop 30 minutes later he had hot-wired the taxi. He just needed a screwdriver to start it. None of the electric circuits where functioning so speedometer, lights or anything else didn't work. Not a big problem in Nairobi. We made it to the destination. Hakuna Matata.

Did I remember to mention that 1990's hits are played all the time in the radio. Just heard the hit this morning. Mariah Carey - 1995 single. It feels so good to hear the music from back then :-) All the memories.
Had lunch, did internet a couple of hours before we walked to Veroniques office to pick her up for dinner. Walking in the rush-hour traffic was quite an experience. The smog was crazy. We made it to the office, met Veronique and walked to the fancy ex-pat restaurant nearby to sit in the garden cafe and have dinner. Yet another contrast to the out side world to sit in a quiet garden and enjoying pasta, sushi and later cake for desert. So easy to forget the real world.
Drove back to the camp, said goodbye and relaxed the rest of the evening. Packing and travelling day to Madagascar tomorrow. Fingers crossed. Had a mail this afternoon with second change to intiniary of our trip over there.