So today, we got up (too) early to set off towards the Rhino Retreat up in the Aberdares - a hugeeeee safari park up in the hills. The journey overall took around 10 hours or so, stopping for a half hour on the way, to pick up Ken (krissie's dad). The last few hours of the journey was through the park itself, and we saw SO much wildlife!!!! 11 elephants, a lot of buffalo (which look exactly like bisee in Nepal), a few warthogs, 3 groups of forest hogs (including...

Today was amazing!! It was an early start, so I wasn't quite awake until around 10ish... Kristina says I'm the only non-morning person she knows!! We had a really good breakfast which consisted of sausages, bacon, toast, croissants, juice and tea. After breakfast we jumped into the cars and set off to the elephant orphanage!!!! There were 2 groups of elephants from 3 months up to about 4 years old. In the second group we saw Naipoki, the 3 year old elephant wh...

So at 7am we arrived at Mathaiga Country Club, where men can only wear leather shoes in the evening, and the only relaxed place is the pool!! All very nice though, and even has wifi which I'm told is very advanced for Kenya!! So we settled in to our cottage, where I'm sharing a room with Theo, and Josh is sharing with Seumus. Krissie and her mum are in a room in the main house. They arrived at about midday and we had a lovely lunch (I had chicken fajitas and a ba...

So I only just finished packing then we had to leave for the airport!! After emotional goodbyes to the pets and (of course) Liam, we set off for a 2 hour journey to Terminal 4 at Heathrow airport, where we spent 3 hours until our flight to Amsterdam. We had some food and wandered round a bit then took off on around an hours flight to Schiphol Airport. When we got there we had about an hour to kill before our 8 hour flight to Nairobi Airport. The flight wasn't to...