Safari 🦒🦁🐘

It’s our last day in Kenya! This morning we got the experience everyone travels here for, Safari! 🦒🐘🐆Of all nights, it rained hard last night! We have had such beautiful weather otherwise, with just a few afternoon sprinkles on a couple of days. Although the rain had stopped by sunrise when we set out it had left the trails through the Nairobi National Park muddy and rutted. One of our 8 vans became stuck fast and the rest of us had to take on extra passengers. My group’s driver was amazing though & we sailed through after a wild, swerving, sliding ride! It added to the excitement! We saw baboons & giraffes up close, tons of impala & gazelle & antelope, rhino in the distance & lots of birds!

Then we got to visit the elephant sanctuary where baby elephants who’ve been orphaned are rehabilitated & eventually reintroduced into the wild, kept track of by their keepers until they have been adopted by a herd. We learned so much and it was super fun to watch these “little”’babies drink their milk & interact with one another, their keepers & us! You can even adopt one for only $50/year! One but we learned is that most are there because of human-wildlife conflict so most importantly please, no ivory or rhino horn!