Thursday we visited Ngomongo villages, a series villages
representing nine different African tribes. They also had a resident medicine
man who told us we were both in good health.
We met an English couple and on Friday Mike and I went for a
walk on the beach, which was considerably cleaner than it had been earlier in
the week. Tony (one of the “beach boys”) walked along side us but not as close
as previously and eventually gave up on us when we told him we had no money
along.
Early Saturday morning we began a long drive to Amboseli National
Park for another safari at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in
Africa and the tallest free standing mountain in the world. The upper slopes of
Kilimanjaro are actually in Tanzania but Amboseli provides some of the best
views (at least when it is sunny). In addition to Kilimanjaro, the landscape
and wildlife is quite different than Masai Mara.
We arrived at our camp early afternoon, had a lunch and a
rest and went for a game drive in which we saw many elephants, zebra,
wildebeest, Grant gazelles, buffalo and even a hippo that seemed injured and
far away from water.
Amboseli has the largest number of elephants in Kenya and at
one point we saw a herd we estimated to consist of roughly 200 elephants. The
only cats we saw at Amboseli were a cheetah and her two cubs.
In answer to prayer the clouds lifted on Monday morning and
for about an hour we had some gorgeous views of Kilimanjaro. We had partial
views most of the time until we left Amboseli for Nairobi around 10:30. The first picture was taken at our camp.
The elephant on the right seemed to want to fight but the one on the left kept backing away so eventually they walked away peacefully.
For the next two days we are in Nairobi before
we fly to Warsaw around midnight on Wednesday.
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