The Distarr Hotel in Voi serves nice hot curries, and the rooms were clean - but the beds were short, and at night it suffered from the liveliness that makes Voi look interesting: the neighbouring disco ended on the dot of 4 am, in time for the early train to whistle past at 4:10, giving me 50 minutes kip until the mosque woke us for prayer at five.
Back to the park as the sun rose - we drove about 100km that morning, and saw ostriches, several groups of giraffes, a troop of baboons, a beautiful secretary bird, mongooses, some kind of shrew, Grant's gazelles, more dik-diks, and lots of big cat prints, but no big cats. Plus termite mounds, big black wasps, Baobab and Myrrh trees and the Yatta Plateau.
Coming round a corner, we saw an elephant hurrying away from us, and failed to see its friend, until a large red angry bull elephant was charging us, ears flapping wildly, trunk raised, trumpeting ... We managed not to stall and to drive in the right direction - so none of us are squashed - but we didn't manage to get a photo of the charge - just the elephant trumpeting afterwards in the distance.
Then 600km homeward - and on the way back to Western Kenya we saw, from the main road, fifteen or so giraffes, one pale yellow thing some of us swore was a lion, several zebra, antelopes, cows, goats, donkeys, and Massai and many other people.
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