Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya is a splendid country in Eastern Africa. It is frontiered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east and Tansania to the south. The Indian Ocean is running along the southeast border.
The capital of Kenya is Nairobi. Today many tourists use the capital as a place to stop for a night, and then leave at first light for a safari or outing to the beach. The city also had great restaurants, plenty of shops, classy hotels and huge wildlife. You can play with baby elephants and spend a lot of time with giraffes or to have a glance onto the ostriches and crocodiles. To be honest Nairobi is not so safety place, but if you are careful and avoiding strolling around late at night, you shouldn’t have any problems.
At David Sheldrick elephant orphanage near the Langata neighborhood, about 25 minutes from downtown tourists can have a contact with baby elephants. It is open every day from 11 a.m. until noon. The elephants are highly intelligent but needy, too. The workers here actually sleep in the stalls with them until they get too big. Then they take them back to the wild and stay with them for six months in the bush until they are ready to live alone.
Not far from the elephant orphanage is the Giraffe Center.Giraffes keep straight right to you to eat from peanut pellets from your hand.There’s also a cafe, a gift shop and a tortoise pen. If you’re really fancy giraffes, Giraffe Manor is right next door, a colonial-era home that has been turned into a luxury hotel where you can feed the animals from your room.
If you’re still not exhausted, go to the Nairobi Safari Walk inside the headquarters of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Follow the winding stone paths and suspended boardwalk for glimpses of lions, leopards, rhinos, ostriches and zebra. There are cheetahs, too, some quite friendly, and for a few extra shillings, you can pet a very large cat.
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