Sleep? What’s that? We don’t care because we are having so much fun! After an early sumptuous breakfast our guide driver met us at the hotel and loaded us into a Land Cruiser to take us to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Along the way we passed through the imaginary Equator line that divides the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere. Of course there were the prerequisite shopping stalls selling any kind of African gifts you felt compelled to purchase.
The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is home to the Big Five animals (rhinos, elephants, lions leopards and buffalo) along with a host of other animals. Our hotel has a beautiful picture window overlooking an animal watering hole. At lunch, a couple of us, I won’t mention whom, thought they saw deer and rhinos. (It was Colleen and Carolyn). Our waitress thought that was pretty funny because they were gazelles and warthogs.The rest of our time at Ol Pejeta was spent in land rovers with pop-up tops driving through the game reserve viewing African wildlife. Here’s what we saw: impalas, elands, water bucks, cape buffalos, lions, crown cranes, antelope, elephants, olive baboons, blacksmith plovers, black rhinos and their babies, gazelles and zebras.
A lion was actually carrying it’s kill (a warthog) to a nice quiet place to eat followed by jackals who were looking for leftovers.
We also had an amazing experience at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary watching these curious, funny, intelligent creatures. The Sanctuary was built to house orphans that were evacuated from Burundi during their civil war. One of the more agressive chimps (Max) thows rocks at people that he takes a dislike to.
We also visited a rhino sancturary and saw a Rhino who had been blinded and now spends his time in leisure protected by the Conservancy.
We are staying at Sweetwater Camp. It is 217 kilometers from Nairobi and is located on the plains of Mount Kenya. Take a look at the link. It’s beautiful and we are being spoiled by the staff. Here is one of our ‘cabins’. Tomorrow we leave this beautiful mecca and head to Samburu.
Glad to see everyone is having a great time!
Looks like you ladies are having a wonderful time. Say hi to Hazel and tell her she is missing the snow, I am sure she will be disappointed.
JoAnn
Hi Carolyn, Micheal just looked at the pictures and is very jealous. Looks like a once-in-a-lifetime trip
Dave