Twiga and Punda Milia (the Giraffe and Zebra)

the Twiga (swahili for giraffe) say Jambo (hello). They were amazing to see, towering gracefuly over the trees, when they run their lanking body becomes a graceful moving mass, silently gliding quickly across the landscape although because of their size they look like they are moving in slow motion. to see many of them in a herd moving with this grace was very moving, tettering on the holy.

the safari as you can imagine was incredible. so many animals. a wildbeest giving birth. a huge volcanic crater in which we explored a lush green landscape filled with zebra and wildbeest in the thousands, hand fulls of lions in various lazy positions (probably more like your own fiesty cats than you imagine). there were flamingos galore and a lepord and cub in a tree all day long, there were herds of elephant with their wrinkly bottoms and funny elbows and huge padded feet and wabbly trunk they use like a fork to twirl the long grass like spagetti and stuff it in their mouths-sometimes 18 hours a day they eat, and walk slowly and eat some more.

wow, an incredible experience.

now, we are back in town. it is hectic here and mark and i are thinking of going straight to the beach on zanzibar. on one hand it seems a shame to miss the mountains here but hiking is not mark's thing at the moment since his knee is still recovering from knee surgery and, everything we tried to do here requires loads of walking anyway, that perhaps we won't be redundant with a tour of the mountainside. so, we are working on travel plans. we shall see how it goes. I will keep you informed. more pictures are on the way once we sort out the 1300 we took in the last four days of safariing.