Kenyan Adventure, Day 2

Today was very tiring, all day out, bad traffic, but lots to see.  Did not expect traffic to be as bad as it was on a Saturday, but there you go.

After breakfast we were on the bus and headed to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage which is located in Nairobi National Park near Nairobi.  This is where orphaned elephant and rhinos are raised to be released back into the wild.  Founded in 1977, it is an international charity known as the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. 
You have to admit, baby elephants are adorable.

Wart hogs everywhere

Next to the Nairobi Giraffe Centre.  It was established in order to protect the endangered Rothschild giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi, that is found only in the grasslands of  East Africa.  With a raised platform, it is easy to see eye to eye with a giraffe, although you have to be careful or they'll swing their heads and hit you.

Eye to eye

 

A different viewpoint

And the normal viewpoint

 We then drove to the Karen Blixen Museum, former home of Karen von Blixen, author of "Out of Africa."  We ate in the lovely garden restaurant where the food was excellent, and then left for the Kazuri Bead Factory.

KAZURI, which means “small and beautiful” in Swahili, began in 1975 as a tiny workshop experimenting with the making handmade beads.  The mission is to provide and sustain employment opportunities for disadvantaged members of Kenyan society, mainly abused single mothers.

Hand made and hand painted, over 5 million beads are made a year.

After shopping at the factory, we drove back to the museum for a tour of the gardens, part of which we'd seen when we ate at the restaurant, and of the house.

After 6 o'clock by this time, we drove back to the hotel in typical, awful, traffic.  So full from the meal at Tamambo, we skipped dinner and packed up for the trip to the next destination .