June 1 is a holiday in Kenya - Madaraka Day. It landed on a Sunday this year, but everyone gets a long weekend anyway. Kianyaga can be a little uneventful so we decided to go to Nairobi... again!
The original plan was to go to an elephant orphanage, but we lost our way somewhere along the three matatus we took and instead ended up at the Nairobi National Park's animal orphanage. We heard that the Nairobi National Park wasn't too great so we took a taxi to the Giraffe Centre! Lots of tourists (including Asians, of course) but for good reason! That good reason being that giraffes are the best.
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Visitors were allowed to feed the giraffes pellets. They have long, grey, and very wet tongues! The giraffes were so incredibly friendly. Unfortunately I didn't get any good pictures of me feeding a giraffe. I resorted to just taking a selfie.
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The hair on the giraffe's tail is almost like human hair. What a funny looking tail.
And lastly, below is a photo that I snapped from the matatu to return to Kianyaga. This is in the busy part of the city - the "Central Business District" or the "CBD". Basically, the downtown.
I heard giraffes fight by bashing their necks together until one falls. Did you see anything like that?
ReplyDelete... no. fortunately.
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