Dominating Nairobi.

Dominating in Nairobi

July 30^th 2013

Nairobi, Kenya

Kissing the Giraffe, a step in the right direction.

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I figured to arrive in Nairobi and set out first thing in the morning for Tanzania to make preparations for my climb. But when arriving back at the hostel I came to the realization that it was only myself and an Australian lady named Emily. Naturally I had to invite her to join me for a beer as my day had been just so outstanding! Emily I discovered is a good sales-woman, and convinced me to go with her to an Elephant Orphanage and a Giraffe sanctuary. So I postponed the bus to Tanzania by a day and went out dominating with Emily.

Emily using her negotiation skills.

Emily and I, both travelling on a budget decided to take public transport to the Elephant orphanage where viewing was only between 11am-12pm. Naturally in fine African fashion we were VERY LATE, by that I mean nearly two hours late. Emily was needless to say, not very impressed, I kept telling her, look at the bright side, maybe, just maybe there is a way we can see these Elephants. 

We spoke to the guard and came to an “Arrangement” whereby we would “Pay him” as opposed to paying the park, and could come from the “private” viewing later on in the evening. We set off for the Giraffe sanctuary with a bit more optimism and hope than earlier and fed those Giraffes with everything we had!

Now that is a fine Aussie Lass!

After having lunch and kissing countless Giraffe, Emily and I still had a bit of time to kill before our “private” viewing of the young Elephants. We went next door from the Giraffe sanctuary to an old Manor, hoping to get a coffee and relax. We were informed that the Manor is a private estate, that acts as an old style hotel, where people pay up to a thousand dollars a night to stay in the finest of style in Kenya.

Thanks for the coffee Giles.

Once again though, our luck kept snowballing, and the manager, Giles came out and turned out to be the nicest guy we had met all day, in fact maybe in all of Kenya. Giles gave us a ride to the main shopping centre, bought us a cappuccino, discussed life living as an expat in Kenya and helped us find our way to the Elephant Orphanage. Emily and I were just astounded.

A orphaned blind Black Rhino, part of the Kenyan authorities effort to save their Rhinos.

We showed up at the Elephant Orphanage, made our “Arrangement”, and went about feeding baby Elephants, and embracing this fantastic project aimed at re-introducing these Orphan Elephants back into the wild.

Now that is one awesome parade.

Hungry little guys.

Emily getting involved in the feeding.

Emily and I returned back to our hostel in nothing but the finest of Nairobi traffic jams, crushed a couple beers to celebrate our incredible adventure and made our arrangements to go further afield, as she will head towards Ethiopia, and I shall go onwards to Tanzania.

The traffic jams of Nairobi.

This day just goes to show, if you keep your chin up, bring out some optimism, and just keep trying, it is truly amazing what can happen.

Emily, YOU ROCK! This was a great day in Kenya!

Now, it is time for me to go and climb a mountain.

Cheers,

William Delaney