We were up early for some buffet breakfast then BABY ELEPHANTS! We hired a taxi for the day to take us a few places we wanted to see. First stop was the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.
The place opens at 10:30 for feedings from 11-12 and it was packed! I think every European tourist decided to go this morning. They are such fun people watching! The elephants at the orphanage are all under 3 years old which is when they stop being dependent on moms milk. Some of them their moms were killed by ivory poachers, some were abandoned or got separated from their families. The orphanage takes care of them 24 hours until they are 3, then they go to a reintroduction center where they eventually leave on their own and join other herds. It was great! You could pet them(they are rougher then they look and covered in very coarse hair), watch them play in the mud and wrestle with each other. They were huge and clumsy! I could watch them all day! It's good to see an organization so dedicated to the little guys.
Afterward we headed over to the Karen Blickson museum. She's the lady who wrote Out of Africa. She had a large estate in Nairobi and a massive coffee plantation. She seemed like a pretty neat lady. We got a tour of her old home then set off back to the hotel.
We got some dinner and packed our things. We had a 2am taxi for our 4am flight to Tunisia the next day. We enjoyed Nairobi but it was difficult to get around(you had to hire a taxi then arrange whether they were going to wait for you or you were going to call them back, it got complicated quickly. The taxis aren't just yellow cars everywhere, they are someone who's phone number you happened to have) and didn't have a lot of points of interest. Now off to Tunisia!!
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