Kenya - Saturday 19 October

This morning we were woken up by the sound of the hippos. When we went to breakfast they were wallowing in the water just outside the dining room.

A rare sight of the noisy hippos outside our tent

It was going to be a long journey back to Nairobi so we left at 7:30 to hopefully arrive at the airport around 3:30pm. First of all we drove through the game reserve, and although it wasn't a planned game drive we still saw lots of wildlife - we saw a group of elephants with a tiny baby, and a lion walking next to us on the road!

The elephants were right at the side of the road!

A tiny baby elephant - Ahmed thought it was 1 month old

Lion casually walking next to the road/track

After all the excitement we then got another puncture and poor Ahmed had to change the tyre, borrowing one off another driver as he had used his spare tyre yesterday! Once we were out of the game reserve we stopped off at a makeshift garage where they fixed the tyre but by this time we had lost an hour! Apart from a couple of wee stops, we were in the van for 8 hours, and we even had to eat our packed lunch whilst travelling along as we didn't have time to stop (note to self: I don't like eating in moving vehicles!).

Nairobi airport is a bit of a shambles and you don't really know what is going on. We had to check in at the airport rather than online and there was no desk for our airline, but I went up to a desk to ask where we go and he said you can go to any desk (it was not obvious). Then the gate was advertising other flights but when we asked we were told it was for our flight (even though it didn't mention our flight on the board at the gate!). We finally got to our hotel at 10pm that evening - it had been a long day. We were so tired we didn't even unpack - we just fell in to bed!

 

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