Sunday - We had a lie in as breakfast is served until 10. We had nothing booked for our 2 days in Nairobi so quickly became bored, there is also signs in reception advising tourists not to go out without a driver so we felt like we were trapped in our hotel. Laura researched online what to do in Nairobi so we had the following options, there is a local giraffe centre where you can watch the giraffes eat breakfast and get a 'giraffe kiss', there is a local elephant orphanage where you can get up close and personal with the baby elephants or we read about taking a tour of the slums, as we are in Africa for a month we figured we would get the animal experience so we chose the slum tour.

We found a tour online and asked the hotel reception to organise for us, we set off at noon with our driver, Andrew, who left us with our guides, Philip and Charles, at the markets.

The market was the start of the slum, the locals came to sell all sorts of stuff, our guides joked that you could buy anything but cars and guns. The deaper into the market we got the more tin houses there were! All the people were friendly, some shaking our hands and all the children wanted to say hello, they all say 'how are you' continuously until you pay them some attention...or they just grab your hands which was sweet.

There are approx 2.5 million slum dwellers in about 200 settlements in Nairobi representing 60% of the Nairobi population, occupying just 6% of the land. Kibera houses almost 1 Million of these people. Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa and one of the biggest in the world.

Whilst there we only saw 2 blocks on toilets which the people have to pay to use, within the same block would be a kitchen where they can come to boil water.

In the centre of the slum ran a railway line, the Uganda Railway line linking Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu on Lake Victoria. The railway line was exposed to all residents, people use it as a a pathway and children as a football pitch.

We were taken to a lady who runs a HIV awareness group within the Kibera community, they meet and make things out of recycled items, Laura got a necklace. We were also taken to a bone factory where 30 local men worked to shape bone into jewlerry, key rings etc where ben also got a necklace.

Our tour lasted 4 hours and we got a real feel of community life, they all help each other with everything. At first we couldn't believe the government let people live like this however we were shown blocks of flats in the distance that the government had built for the people and were told they didn't like living there as their businesses are not on their doorsteps, as well as not being able to afford rent. We got a feel like no real additional money goes into the community and that they all trade between eachother, for the first time we saw what 'community' was all about.

We ended our day with Skype sessions with the parents which makes us very happy :)

Today we have sunbathed by the pool...yes we got brave and exposed the white skin!!! Our meeting is at 18:00 for our next trip which we are very eager to start!!

L&B