17/11: Nairobi

Today we slept a bit longer and then we went with matatu to the national museum. It is a very good museum and I think much better than the others had thought after the museum in Dar. They had a really good permanent exhibition, but it was one of their temporary ones that really caught my eye. It was paintings by a guy who won the 4^th place on some competition last year with a painting called: kazi ni kazi (work is work), showing a guy pulling a wagon with the text next to it that said: as long as you do honest work, you do respectable work. He won one month of exhibition in the museum. His exhibition is called: Wanamke ni Effort, meaning it is an effort to be a women, or takes an effort. He had painted a lot of pictures of women and they had kangas on. Real kangas on the paintings so that they were sticking out like it was a real thing. I was really cool and though he doesn’t understand women all that well, he really made an effort of his own. Afterwards we wanted to eat lunch at the Savanna coffee lounge which we had read about in the guidebook, but it had closed. But something else had opened instead and we ate there. Then we went to the Norfolk Hotel because we wanted to eat a dessert at Lord Delamere Terrace and bar. We had a really expensive dessert and then we went to the Kenyatta Conference center to enjoy the view over Nairobi. It was a really amazing view, but we didn’t have long to enjoy it because we had to be back at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust at five. Since Camille and Freja had adopted an elephant they are allowed to come then and see the elephants be put to bed. We also got to see the two black rhinos, which means that I have seen all the big five. Two of the elephants were just two months and they were so small – just imagine how small it is at two weeks. I got two elephant kisses before we had to go at six. Then we had Ethiopian for dinner. Which was nice, but there was too much food.  Then we went back and got to sleep early.