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First off, the photos are up! You'd better check them out! Either click any of the photos on these Kenyan blogs to see them all or check the photos on the right hand bottom of this page.

Today was really all about the Nairobi Animal Orphanage. The orphanage itself is located inside the Nairobi national park and is home to some animals brought to the orphanage for a number of reasons. Lions, Hyenas, Parrots, Cheetahs, Warthogs (who have right of way according to signs around the park!), 4 kinds of monkey and very ugly ostriches live here and are kept in very large areas just like their own habitat in the wild fenced off by chicken wire for the safety of the visitors.

Now I'm used to seeing those kind of animals on a regular basis but it usually comes with Sir David Attenborough narrating so seeing them up close and personal was (i'm not afraid to admit it) a bit of an emotional experience. Forget the zoos anywhere else in the world, seeing African animals in Africa is it. Amazing is not strong enough an adjective to describe it. I now understand why people spend thousands going on safari to see them in their natural habitat and if we had the time this trip, I'd be doing that 6 hour drive to Masai Mara to do just that.

The warthogs were trying to eat the birds in the cage next to them! The parrots were whistling at the Lions and the Lions were chilling like 'yeah, we're the kings of the jungle'. The guide we saw said that they were being moody as they don't get fed on mondays - I can understand that. I get moody if I go over 4 hours without food!! Check the flickr account for more photos from the Orphanage.

Was warned by Sammy yesterday that downtown Nairobi on a weekday was busy but I didn't think he meant as busy as it was. The place was organised chaos! The streets were full to bursting, there was music and noise and traffic everywhere and there were ZERO parking spaces! There are 3 main football teams out here: Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea! We even saw Kenyan buses painted up with team colours! Traffic out here is crazy - if you can drive in Nairobi, no other roads across the world will trouble you!

Looked into flights to Mombassa - they're expensive right now!! Working quite hard right now to make sure this isn't my last trip out to Kenya so will have to do that and the Masai Mara next time. Tomorrow, to the market and hopefully to check out more of the hiphop scene... I'll keep you posted!