The first wave leaves Nairobi tonight. Kyle, Bekah, Susan and I got up early and went off to the Nairobi Game Park for a half day game drive. There were a few vans with safari tops in the parking lot when we paid our entrance fee, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I was hoping it wouldn't be an all day Nairobi traffic jam like this. Our driver was Martin, cousin of last night's driver.
Martin got us away from the crowd, and we saw some lion tracks in the road. A few minutes later we found the owner of the print. These two lions looked pretty hungry, and the right one had a big wound on her left shoulder.
They were pretty close - maybe 10-20 feet in front of the van. Eventually they decided to look for breakfast and took a walk by the van. This cat was maybe 3 feet below me and my camera - you don't get that close in the zoo.
If you look close at this picture, you can see one of the two girls looking off at a couple of zebras at about 9 o'clock in the picture. Click on the picture to see the full size photo. We watched the lions stalk the zebras for an hour or so, but eventually they gave up, not getting a good kill shot. As we looked at the zebras closer up, we found two of them that had pretty close calls at being breakfast recently.
We're now back at the hotel after having lunch in town, seeing the Garcia's former residence, Ndemi Manor. Tim has enjoyed many Stoney Tangawizi Ginger Beers while he was here, as you can see here. Stoney is about the strongest stuff Tim will drink, and after nearly two weeks here he can drink the whole bottle of soda without gagging.
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