Nairobi

Today I woke up early to say goodbye to Liz as she had to go to the airport around 5am. Since I’m up anyway I figured I might as well stay up and go through my stuff. I’m preparing a package to mail to my parents house so that I have less “stuff” to drag through Egypt with me. It wont be cheap but if the package actually makes it back to Canada it will be worth it.

I jumped in a cab and went to the  Giraffe Sanctuary. These are Rothschild Giraffes, not the Reticulated Gitaffes that I’ve seen in the wild. There aren’t many Rothchild Girafes left in the world but to be honest I couldn’t tell you the difference except that these ones ate out of my hand, lol.

After the giraffes I went to thre Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. These are all baby elephants under 2 years old that have been left orphanes mostly due to poaching of their mothers. The orphanage is only open for 1 hour a day to minimize exposure to humans so that these cute lil buggars can be released back into the wild. This program was started by the wife of a park warden who was seeing all these poor little baby elephants left wandering the wild after poaching left them orphaned. The program is now run by the park wardens daughter following the death of the warden and the retirement of the wife. It’s an amazing program ran by some pretty amazing people.

There was also a blind Rhino kept on the grounds. The Rhino was born blind and has lived at the sanctuary most of it’s life. I was able to nearly touch him!

After my morning of tourist activities I cabbed it back to the hotel where I found some nice locals to build me a kick ass box to mail back to Canada. I also got a marriage propsal, lol. After the boys got all my goodies boxed up they offered to carry it to the post office for me (for a charge of course). I couldn’t find a taxi so what the hell, off we went on foot. My package was 9kg and cost $90 but it was gone….hopefully to Canada.