Sunday, March 11, 2007

In The Shadow of Kilimanjaro





While the last post was titled "All Creatures Great and Small", this one's events are far more deserving. We have been relaxing with our good friends Matt and Jess here in Nairobi, and just got back from an overnight safari camping trip in the Amboseli National Park (just along the border with Tanzania). To list the animals seen would be ridiculous, so I will focus on the highlights: elephants (many!), giraffes (few), zebra (many), gazelles, buffalo, jackals. We rented a car and drove down (~3.5 hours), and borrowed tents etc. Again, the post is short on text, but a picture is worth a thousand words....
The ladies posing with me are Massai in traditional garb. Unfortunately, these people of the land seem to be increasingly moving towards commercialism. The picture was not free!

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