We arrived safely in Nairobi yesterday night following two 8 hour flights (via Amsterdam). It was our first experience with KLM and it was a good one on large 300 & 400 passenger planes. The Nairobi airport, which lost it's International Terminal in August to a fire in August, also did a wonderful job in their makeshift spot in the Domestic Terminal. They put us on a bus after exiting the plane, then went through the VISA purchase line, picked up our backpacks from the carousel and made it through Customs, all within 45 minutes which we thought was remarkable. Once we arrived at our downtown hotel we immediately went to bed (9:30 pm) and slept until 10 am this morning...... guess we shouldn't have watched so many movies on the plane (and perhaps the 9 hour time zone differential had something to do with that as well).
Today we took it very easy with a walk around the Nairobi city centre, and Uhuru & Central Parks where the locals were relaxing in the shade of the trees in the large downtown parks on a 25C+ day. We are heavily outnumbered.......99 coloured people for every Caucasian......but the people we have met seem very friendly and always smiling which is a relief to see only a week after the horrible terrorist attack at a shopping mall.
Tomorrow morning we board a bus for a 6 hour ride to Arusha in Tanzania which is the launch point for our Mount Kilimanjaro hike starting the next day. Our next update won't come until we get down from the mountain so hopefully we won't be de-railed by altitude sickness (19,500 feet) and we will have some wonderful memories to share.
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| Our 747-400 vessel into Africa |
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| Uhuru Park in Nairboi |
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