After returning to Nairobi, I spent a few days doing the usually touristy stuff. Went to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage to see lots of baby orphaned elephants get their morning milk out of bottles. The orphanage is part of the Nairobi National Park. The younger, the cuter the elephants.
After the elephant orphanage, I west to have lunch at the posh Karen Blixen Coffee House before heading on to see the Karen Blixen Museum. Karen Blixen is the woman the movie Out of Africa was about. The museum contains many old relics from when she lived there between 1917 and 1931. The exterior of the home was used in the film.
Today the surrounding neighborhood is named Karen in her honor. Full of very extravagantly wealthy homes as well.
If became time for some cash. After my experiences in South Africa, I was a bit wary about using ATMs in Nairobi. Things are a bit different in Kenya, however. Most ATMs are well guarded or housed in shopping malls. Due to the Westgate Shopping Mall attack, all vehicles are now stopped at the perimeter of shopping mall parking lots and are searched before being allowed to enter. Once shoppers get to the entrances, they must be personally searched by guards for any weapons before they can enter. With all that security around, I don’t think anyone is too keen on trying to scam people out of their ATM cards.
