On arrival...

This is how we were received by the beautiful country, an enormous cloud of humid and hot dust. At the airport, a (still) smiley Kenyan young man was showing a wrinkled sheet of paper stating:

CECILIA

11 PAX

This was for our team, after about one hour of waiting for us, for our flight had changed times! We had also (very sadly) missed a member of the team, our hunter Henry Chang (we miss you here Henry...).
We started our trip walking to our first "matatu" and very skilfully entering our luggage through the window!

We soon discovered that traffic in Nairobi is ridiculous. Traffic jams seem to happen all the time, even though we had never seen as many people walking everywhere!

The scenery was very cute, with people setting a stall at any random corner and selling almost anything. But also people resting on the floor, people walking with big steps and decision, deformed people begging, kids going to school saying hi to us...

After being set at the campsite, napping for a bit, and rubbing some adequate suncream, we got ourselves out to the Nairobi adventure. We thought we were simply finding a good Ethiopean restaurant, walking distance, for a quick lunch. On the other hand, we received misleading directions that drove us into the interesting experience of public transport in Kenya. For some reason, Kenyan people believe you can get any bus going any direction and it'll take you to Yaya centre (this is a shopping mall). So we proved luck and jumped on the first bus that came at the other side of the road - this was risky risky, I think I haven't yet seen a traffic light here!

Just about we made our way into the bus, jammed as one could never imagine, with a virtual corridor full of flesh of those who couldn't really fit their legs in the tiny seats! No bus stops, no bus numbers, no tickets to buy... 20KSH is what we paid for the journey (this is below 20p!) and this is how some of the team looked...

On their behalf I shall say that the music in the bus was cool and that we actually made it to Yaya!

After giving up with the Ethiopean place, filling our stomachs with food, our phones with SIM cards and our bags with water; we went to the Animal Orphanage. We fed a giraffe, saw monkeys fighting, and learnt some Swahili. See what you can guess from here: simba, impala, duma, fisi, asante...

On the way back we finally made to the Ethiopean, where we ate incredible amounts of food with our hands in what seemed like a family dinner! We were well defeated by food, never underestimate how filling those ethiopean pancakes can be... I want to finish this entry with an image of the team, which has been great on the first (very tiring) day :)