A lie-in till 8, in our comfortable enough rooms in the Manson Hotel - then a big included-in-the-price breakfast to keep us going. Off to a cybercafe, which lost all power just as Naomy had nearly completed a long circular email, I'd got a bunch of photos half uploaded, and Heather had finally got into her email account. So we dropped H, Mo and Rosa in another cybercafe in a more electrified part of town and went to visit Naomy's old college friend, at Telkom Kenya Regional HQ. Taabu was very pleased to see Naomy, and all of us, and we passed a pleasant hour chatting, and trying to get Rebecca a job.
Two hours horrible road, then one hour very good road to Voi, and the gate into Tsavo East National Park.
We hadn't planned to visit a National Park (too expensive) - but we couldn't resist it when we were going to be sleeping in town right next door anyway. And in fact it was cheaper than we'd feared - 27 USD each for H and I, 10 USD each for our two girls, and only 250 KSh for the Kenyans, for 24 hours access to the park. The photos won't do it justice, but that evening we saw giraffes, warthog, a distant elephant, a huge herd of buffalo, guinea fowl, spur fowl, a widow bird, several kinds of lizards and a medley of antelope, including the tiny dik dik.
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