Tourists

We’ve had our first visitors! My father and his good friend stayed for 11 days, and finally we had an excuse to see more of this beautiful country. We travelled to Lake Nakuru National Park, spent a great day there and saw an incredible amount of wild animals. Lion, leopard, zebras, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, ostriches, rhinos, flamingos (this is the lake that is world famous for its hundreds of thousands of flamingo that usually live along the shore), and at least four different types of antelopes as well as birds with names I don’t know. Truly an amazing experience to get this close to wild animals without any fence but our car between us and them.

In addition to seeing wild animals, we drove up the sandiest, dustiest road I’ve ever driven to get to Menengai crater, a huge, volcanic crater. Maybe it was the sand and dust in our eyes, clothes, mouths and car that made the following decision for us, ‘cause when we reached our next stop, Lake Baringo, none of us wanted to leave after only one night to get back in the car. And even without the sand it wouldn't have been diffucult to make us stay longer: In Baringo, we found the most wonderful place I’ve ever seen In Kenya: An island in the lake, and a tented camp on it. Great service, all meals included and panoramic view of the sunrise from our beds. No cars or donkeys (or even music!) on the island=silence! Only birds were heard except human voices. Amazing.

The pictures show, besides wild animals, my father jumping across the equator line, my father and Odd Kristian outside their tent/hut on Island Camp; George, Inga, Odd Kristian and me in Nakuru National Park; a bird next to our breakfast table on Island Camp; me, Odd Kristian and my father by the pool (the brownish water in the background is Lake Baringo); the sunrise seen from my bed in the tent.