In answer to Rachael's comment question - here are our three (each) favourite things about visiting Kenya, and our most surprising thing (each) - you have to decide for yourselves who picked what!
Favourites (no particular order!)
- Seeing Lani
- Choosing, bring home and getting to know two very sweet puppies
- Spending time with Naomy, including thinking about her NGO lots with her
- Chapattis
- Seeing Anne after so long
- Dengu (mung bean stew with garlic - good with chappatis!)
- Getting to know Rebecca
- Our 1000km trip to Watamu - the sea, the night-club, laughing together ...
- Learning some Kiswahili
- The Swan cyber-cafe!
- Seeing animals - including the leopard
- Living in rural Kenya with the Wanyore
Most surprising things
- Chips everywhere - not french fries, but real proper chips. And ketchup.
- How visible disability was. Lots of disabled people, getting around as best they could, no wheelchairs or other help with getting places.
- How small Nairobi seemed for a capital city.
- How invisible/shameful HIV/AIDS is - although it was talked about as a big issue, we didn't meet one person who admitted they or any family-member was HIV positive or had died of AIDS: and the only person we read about in the newspapers (in two months) was Nelson Mandela's son.