So Nairobi...the biggest event in Nairobi was probably my drunkenness - let me just make it clear that Kenyan vodka is lethal, especially when you drink a 750ml bottle in 3 hours...lets just say that I have severe memory loss, and that there are some very attractive photos of me throwing up and being passed out on the grass outside our room. Apparently I told two of my Aussie friends to go home to their own country and I also offered sexual favours to one of them. My line is that if I don't remember, it didn't happen, but unfortunately no-one will let me get away with that. All I can say is that if a bottle of vodka is less than $3, it probably isn't the wisest purchase. The only positive is that as I passed out by 10.30pm, I had absolutely no hangover the next day! So that worked well, as the next day we visited a giraffe sanctuary. This is where I thought I'd kiss a giraffe...apparently their tongues are antiseptic, so you can't get any diseases from them. You put a piece of giraffe food in your mouth and they remove it during the kiss. I thought it would be disgusting and really weird, but surprisingly not! I really enjoyed the visit though, but we did spend the rest of the day just chilling and trying to reduce my embarrassment. We lost 4 people from the truck in Nairobi - two we were happy about (though one had amazing stories...let's just say that he wore disposable pants which were antiseptic, so could be worn more than once...that was just the start of his entertaining ways!).

From Nairobi, we crossed into Tanzania to visit Snake Park in Arusha. This was the base for our Serengeti trip, but before we went there, we went on a Maasai village walk which was really interesting, and also saw snake feeding i.e. Live chicks being fed to the snakes which again was pretty interesting! Snake Park was also the venue we controversially lost our flip cup world title - we actually won (we beat 4 other trucks), but someone on our team agreed to a re-match which we then lost. We did go into a period of mourning, but we still contest the loss as we lost against a miscellaneous team (i.e. a combination of trucks), their victory should be void… we keep telling ourselves that anyway!

From there, we went on our 3 day safari trip. The most important fact of this trip...our safari guide was actually called Simba - how amazing is that?! Anyway, on the first day we visited Lake Manuri National Park which was ok, but quite a similar experience to Lake Nakuru in Kenya. We did see a big family of elephants close up though which was pretty cool. On our second day, we visited Ngorogoro Crater which was amazing. The crater is a massive volcano crater that sunk back down into the ground (as it was too big) and now there is loads of wildlife there. The setting was stunning and the animals we saw were amazing - I had a lioness eyeballing me from 2m away and I actually held my breath, I just couldn't breathe and my heart was pounding (I was obviously in a car, but the killer eyes were amazing). We also saw lion cubs practicing stalking zebra and wildebeest which was really amusing too. From Ngorogoro, we went onto the Serengeti and did an afternoon drive, in addition to a morning drive the next day. It was just amazing - it was exactly how I imagined a safari to be, with the big plains and so many animals. We saw more lions, a leopard climbing down a tree (which apparently is really rare), cheetahs, loads of zebra, wildebeest, buffalos, hyenas etc, all really close to the side of the road. We also saw the back end of the great wildebeest migration which was just an amazing sight - both zebras and wildebeest make the migration from Kenya (so they end in the Serengeti to give birth), and the sight of hundreds of thousands of these animals is just brilliant, again just awe inspiring. Apparently the Lion King is based on the Serengeti and you can definitely see the similarities in landscape. I was so looking forward to the Serengeti, and it definitely lived up to its reputation.

From Arusha, we then drove on through Tanzania to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar which will form my final blog (for now!)