Kenya
Oct. 2022
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| At the railway museum. Claws of a notorious lion that killed many railway builders. Only shown upon request! |
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| Great names: Blood fruit, or tree tomato. |
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| At the Nairobi library. |
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| Waterbuck |
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| Brutalism goes green |
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| Marabou storks waiting for butcher scraps at the city market. |
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| Taking a tour of Kibera in Nairobi, "Africa's largest slum". |
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| The slum has 18 "bio-centers" converting human waste into methane, which is then used for washing and cooking. |
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| Remains of the first-ever ivory bonfires (1989). Since then, about 20 countries have followed Kenya's lead. |
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| The vervet's famous light blue testicles. |
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| The summit of Longonot Volcano's crater. Last erupted in 1860s. The crater floor is largely untouched. |
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| View from the summit. |
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| All ash, not rock. |
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| On the right, a smaller side crater. On the left, a greener circle where lava stopped spreading. |
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| Antlion holes to trap passing ants. |
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| Antlion. And its jaws. |
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| Gazelle remains left by a leopard. |
Itinerary: Solo travel. 8 days based in Nairobi with day-trips out to Lake Naivasha, Longonot Volcano and Nairobi Nat'l Park.
Wildlife seen: dik-dik, gazelle, impala, waterbuck, white rhino, crocs, hippo, lion, olive baboon, vervet monkey, colobus monkey, wildebeest, hartebeest, eland, African buffalo, warthog, ostrich, giraffe, zebra, big locusts, antlion, ground-nesting bees, and fierce cocktail ants living in whistling acacia.
Birds: European bee-eater, superb starling, northern anteater chat, augur buzzard, little grebe, black crake, blacksmith plover, sacred ibis, cattle egret, great white egret, Goliath heron, black-headed heron, pied kingfisher, giant kingfisher, African fish eagle, hamerkop, Egyptian goose, yellow-billed stork, marabou stork, common sandpiper, longtailed cormorant, great cormorant, African jacana, coot, moorhen, great white pelican, pink-backed pelican, African spoonbill, flamingo, yellow-billed duck, lilac-breasted roller, red-billed oxpecker, common bulbul, vulturine guinea fowl, spurfowl, black kite, tawny eagle, black-winged stilt and ostrich.
