7.12.2008

Taxi to Wilson airport, nice flight to Nanyuki. Hang out at great café while waiting for pick-up. Passion fruit juice and melty gouda sandwich, mmmm. Head into Nanyuki and stop at the "Spinners and Weavers," a great local women run place. We get a little tour and see how they spin, dye, and weave their sheep's wool. They have about a dozen colors that all come from natural sources, i.e. scale insects on cactus, plant roots, etc. I'm extremely happy to support them in my purchases...
Next we head to Ol’ Pejeda, a neighboring ranch and conservancy. Almost instantaneously we spot a rhino heading to the watering hole. Awesome! Rhinos! And other wildlife. Feels a bit zoo-ish, but then again, it caters to tourists.


You can practically touch the zebras they're so close, and we watched a li’l zebra and mom eat
together.











We spent some time with 'Moroni' the tame rhino and even got to touch him. He felt like solid, ancient wood.








Also got to stand next to a giraffe spine and watch chimps play
and just hang out.












After all the traveling feels great to return to Mpala!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like someone was happy to see you...

Probably one of my favorite posts so far, the vid, the pics, the emotion of returning home, however temporary of a home it is...

mikey said...

hehe; monkeycock! I fear to think how they got that rhino's horns off. That womenoperated textile factory does sound cool. Seems like there are economic opportunities for women in the developing world generally like this? Intersted.