Nairobi National Park

My friend Victoria came to visit Nairobi this weekend, which we spent together with the rest of our group of Nairobi-based Oxford friends. As Victoria works in Kampala, we made sure to do things that are harder to achieve in Kampala, like eating at an authentic Italian restaurant, going to a bougie café, browsing through an expat-centric bookstore, and eating Vietnamese food. We also spent a few hours lazing about Karura Forest. The highlight of the weekend, however, was our game drive in Nairobi National Park. This was the closest I have ever gotten to rhinoceroses in the wild: we saw two pairs, one of them accompanied by a calf that was prancing around and eying us curiously. We also came across some lions, buffalos, a serval cat, a hyena, and a crocodile. The number of giraffes was astounding, and we managed to snap a few pictures of the classical giraffe-in-front-of-the-big-city scene that people associate with the park.


A guineafowl
A baby rhinoceros
A black-bellied bustard
A white rhinoceros
A female impala
A lion
A male giraffe
A superb starling
A giraffe and a zebra, with Nairobi in the background
A giraffe
Two giraffes, with Nairobi in the background
A fiscal
Two lionesses
Hippos and Nairobi
A crocodile
A sunbird
Karura Waterfalls
A bush fig
A path in Karura
Vines growing over a small cave
Farther down the path

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