Visited the Giraffe Orphanage, where you could greet giraffes at their eye level (thanks to a platform) and hand feed them pellets. I can report that they have very long slimy tongues. Warthogs would follow giraffes because of their reliance on other wildlife. It was odd to see them somehow avoid getting stepped on by their giant neighbors and kneel (as they do) when eating.
Afterwards, I had a nice lunch at the Matbronze Wildlife Art Gallery and Foundry (and café) nearby to eat a late breakfast and admire their bronze exhibition.
My driver gave me the full game drive in Nairobi National Park in the afternoon. After hunting for a while without much success, we eventually found where all the animals were hiding. Tall grass? No, there are lions in there – so we found the full range where there was shorter grass near the southeastern part of the park – including hippos, ostriches, impalas, zebras, giraffes, jackals, monkeys, and a fair few black rhinos.
There was one walk we had to do to get to a remote hippo pool yesterday (no hippos there, unfortunately). In order for us to do the walk we had to be personally escorted by a park police officer with a machine gun – just in case any lions or leopards lunged out at us (I guess). At one point I pointed out a monkey near the river and I thought I heard him get startled enough to put his hand on the trigger.
It is amazing to think in this day and age people in this part of the world are still living side by side with such predators! This park was fenced, but there are still quite a few animals that manage to get out. We saw some hyenas nearby after we drove out of the park.