We are getting to the end of our African trip, which for us is also the end of this amazing journey around the world!
We’ll be entering Kenya just north of Arusha and then proceed to the west of Nairobi where we’ll be spending a few days in Karen at the foot of the N’gong hills, a beautiful quarter of the city, named in honor of Karen Blixen. Myself, Andreas and Matt are getting a lift with a minibus heading for Maasai Mara, and should get off as it passes in the vicinity of the Karen Blixen museum, which is in the original home of Karen while she was in Africa. Well, the driver forgot to stop and when we got off we had to walk and walk, for approximately forever! We couldn’t see the end of it, but after asking a few people for directions, we are at the gate.
The house is beautiful, and it’s easy to see which kind of dream it could have been to live here! The house was donated by the Danish government to the city of Nairobi and it has now been turned into a very pleasant museum. People here have deep respect of her story and her memory, a Danish woman coming to Kenya and falling in love with the country, and now remembered with schools and institutions.
In the evening we are brought to a unique culinary experience at The Carnivore, a restaurant where the all-you-can-eat idea applies to all kinds of meat you can imagine. It’s not far from the camping where we are staying. Actually we are not using the tents this time, but sleep in comfy beds at the back of the main house. The waiters walk around with metal spears holding a whole turkey, sausages, roast beef, then ostrich balls, pork chops and one more round for all of us! It feels it’s time to celebrate the end of our experience together. Only four people stayed on for the whole tour from Cape Town to Nairobi: me, Andreas, Nathan and Matt. So we deserve a picture together with our South African tour leaders at the end of the evening!
Nairobi has a lot to offer, but we’ll leave a trip to the city for tomorrow and today visit the Elephant and Rhino nursery where baby elephants are rehabilitated after having been mistreated or injured in the wild. Unfortunately it is not uncommon to have encounters between people and wild animals which always ends in the latter losing out, and here they are doing an important work in trying to educate people into a correct and fair relationship with the native species. The small elephants are rather cute!
