Every once in a while you would find police with stop sticks.

Somebody drops the police off anywhere in the country and they put the stop sticks with huge spikes in the road so that cars and trucks must slow down to drive around the sticks. Then the police can check for dirvers licences and whever they need to know about the drivers. Police like this do not use police cars. They just have side arms and a rifle to shoot you if you try to drive away.
We read we should never take pictures of police - so we did - some distance away and from behind the windshield.

 

 

Back in Nairobi they do use police cars

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A parking lot at the Nairobi InterContinental Hotel. . . Traffic at the corner of the hotel.

People walking across the street from the Nairobi InterContinental Hotel

The Karen Blixen Estate - a former coffee plantation and home of the author

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The home of Karen Bilxen, the author (under the name of Isak Dinesen) who wrote Out of Africa.

The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen’s life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. The Blixens had planned to raise dairy cattle, but Bror developed their farm as a coffee plantation instead.

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While we were there a couple had a wedding reception on the grounds of the Bilxen home.

We drove a short distance to visit Giraffe Manor

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In 2007, Rachel fed a sting ray. This year, 2009, she fed a giraffe - twice. What next, Rachel ?

We noticed one employee who was wearing an Obama button. He was very happy to
shake Rachel's hand - the one that Obama shook and get an Obama bumper sticker from America.

Then we went back to Nairobi to eat at the Carnivore Restaurant

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That night we ate at the Carnivore Restaurant.

The Carnivore is an open-air meat specialty restaurant with a wide variety, including four choices of wild game. Meat is roasted on traditional Maasai swords (skewers) over a huge charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant. The waiters then carry these swords around the restaurant, carving unlimited amounts of the meats onto sizzling, cast iron plates.

They used to be famous for serving wild game meat before this was banned by Kenyan law. They serve meats you would expect, plus zebra, giraffe, impala, wildebeest and even crocodile from eco-friendly game ranches which play an important role in conservation.

Rachel and Roger and a few others ate vegetarian - and it was very good. To be perfectly honest, many people said they wish they would have gone veggy because the meat was dry.

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We went back to the hotel to sleep. The next morning we left most of our luggage in hotel storage and took small bags for two days at our last stop, Amboseli National Park.

 

 

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