Isaac and I both had a free afternoon yesterday so we decided to check out Crescent Island and Lake Naivasha. We recruited Jason, a college student who is spending a few months here, and headed to the mutatu stand to find a driver. As soon as he pulled up in his beat-up Corolla we knew the car wasn't going to make it. We were right. He sat down and the seat snapped, like the back of the seat was in Jason's lap. So we made a quick pit stop in a small town at the bottom of the Rift Valley where a man came out and welded the seat back into place.
Meanwhile kids kept coming up to us asking for bread.
We didn't give them any, but we took a picture with them.
We ate lunch at the Lake Naivasha Country Club, which apparently is where all the rich Kenyans hang out. We couldn't afford the baller lunch buffet so we ordered sausages and fries.
After lunch, we took a boat across Lake Naivasha to Crescent Island, which is no longer an island because a bunch of flower farms have been sapping all the water. It was also where they filmed "Out of Africa," some old movie none of us have seen before.
A hippo chilling in the lake.
We spent the afternoon walking around with animals. Giraffe families, zebra, impalas, gnu and a python we tracked forever but couldn't find. We each took turns chasing them.
Here we are admiring a gnu carcass that a group of vultures was feeding on.
Jason climbed into an aardvark hole and got stuck.
We should have paid attention to the gathering clouds, cause it started pouring just as we got back from the island.
It was good trip, and thank God for bringing us home safely. We spent the evening playing basketball up at Rift Valley Academy, the boarding school for missionary kids. It's weird how many Korean kids go to school there. Anyway, here's Mt. Longonot again. Kenya is beautiful.
On a side note, I had a couple Maasai parents bring their baby into the casualty while I was on call. They came from really far away, close to the Kenya-Tanzania border, cause their baby had this huge bump on her head that is probably a hemangioma. I learned that the traditional Maasai diet consists of cow meat and a mixture of milk and cow blood. Maybe we'll try some when we visit Givan.
safari looks incredible! sounds like it was a great trip!
ReplyDeleteout of africa is a good movie!
ReplyDeletei <3 giraffes
I believe cow meat, as exotic as it sounds, is also known in certain cultures as "beef."
ReplyDeletehahahahah i'm dying from joey's comment.
ReplyDeletethe giraffes look awesome! i wish i could see one in the wild!
and again with the shorts; seriously, i thought they were just for boys and prisoners!!
Although I have never been to Africa, I believe that cow meat and beef are cooked differently so they would have different names.
ReplyDeleteDumpling served at Dim Sum is called Ravioli or Tortellini in Italy, Palt, or Pitepalt in Sweden, Kloß in Northern Germany, Spätzle, Knöpfle or Knödel in Southern Germany and Austria. In Hungary dumplings are called galuska or nokedli.... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpling)
Japanese always perfect what Americans invented, such as automobiles and computers. So in Japan, there is a so-called "Kobe Beef" - the cows are fed beer and massaged routinely to make the meat tender.
I wanted to try some Cow Meat, particularly those that are preserved by drying on the bone... Isaac, are you able to try some?
nice pictures guys. great stories. glad to be able to keep up with this blog. work hard, stay well.
ReplyDeleteturns out we'll probably be eating goat meat. the plan is to purchase a goat from givan for 2000 shillings, slaughter it, make jason drink the blood, roast it and then eat it for lunch. hopefully it's tasty.
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