26 January 2006

Last day in Africa

It's hard to believe today is our last day in Africa. We are taking one of our party to the airport in 15 minutes...he heads home through Jo'burg...long flights for him. Tomorrow we all leave separately, except Fred, our host, who leaves on Saturday.
We had a very interesting trip here to the rural part of Kenya, where Fred's extended family lives, without water, electricity, etc. We spent one night there, but we had a nice "hotel"...it was a room with a bathroom for $10 a night. It was clean and we weren't bothered by any mosquitoes. We did have to use bottled water for teeth brushing there though...that was the first and only time we've had to do that in 4 weeks.
We've done some shopping here, which has been interesting. The salespeople at the markets will try to take everything you have to "trade" for things they are selling. We traded a key ring clip and a cheap hat of Geo's for some things. Not sure if that was a good deal or not though. It was a fun process, learning the local way of doing things.
Last night, we went to the famous Nairobi restaurant called "Carnivore". They serve all sorts of skewered meats, directly served onto your plate. We tried ostrich meat balls and camel. Those were pretty exotic. Interestingly, they offer a vegetarian menu as well, for about half the price as the meat menu (about $25 a person, all you can eat, soup, salad, desserts included). We had a good time and then we danced off our dinner at the attached club. We got home around 3 am...the rest of our group stayed out until almost 6 am. Crazy kids...
Today we should be visiting the giraffe center, where you can hand feed giraffes, and maybe we'll get to see some Kenya dancing.
We should be able to update some more from our layover in London tomorrow.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like your African experience was a good one. Glad you only had to use bottled water one day. Hope you got some pictures of the African country life and the night life. Dancing can be good exercise. Have a good trip through London. (I love that shopping.) Love, McMom

26/1/06 13:04  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Only one day of using bottled water to brush your teeth?? You did have it easy :)

Glad to hear you're leaving the dark continent with fond memories. Looking forward to swapping stories and sharing pictures if we ever wind up in the same city at the same time again :)

31/1/06 07:22  

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