30th August 2011. Tomorrow we are going on our very first adventure outside of Nairobi. We’re heading up to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy near Nanyuki (at the foothills of Mount Kenya) for a long weekend away. I am so excited, it is going to be brilliant to see some of this beautiful country.
We are going with friends from Nairobi who are locals and specialists on Kenya, so we’re going to get so much insight into the area. We’re staying at Ol Pejeta House on Thursday night and then at Sweetwaters tented camp for Friday and Saturday nights. The conservancy has a huge range of game and also has a monkey and rhino sanctuary. Apparently one of the rhinos is so tame you can actually feed it! I will definitely be taking heaps of pictures and reporting back on our trip next week.
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| Ol Pejeta House |
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| Sweetwaters camp |
The last few days have been pretty busy too. We had our first braai on Sunday with friends. It was so nice to have a house full of people and kids, even if the weather didn’t cooperate that well. Mark’s ex-boss from his Gillette days, Michael Wood, also arrived on Sunday and will be with us until tomorrow. So on Monday we went out for Sushi and last night we had more people over for one of Mark’s delicious chicken curries. It is lovely to have him here & we’re hoping he spends more time in Kenya (and with us) going forward. Today is a public holiday here (Eid), so I’m having some time out while Mark is playing golf.
The long holiday also ends next week, with Evan officially starting his first year of school on Wednesday. And I did get a consulting job – Yayay! So I will also be starting my working life here for a couple of mornings a week at Destination Magazine. I’m very much looking forward to having some ‘grown-up’ work to do and will also hopefully continue to write for Mark’s company too.
Chat to you next week with news of our trip xxx.
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