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We visited the David Sheldrick elephant sanctuary today
which is still run by the Sheldrick family. It was very interesting to see how
they managed to rear the baby orphaned elephants and reinstate them into the
wild. The sanctuary is situated on the edge of the Nairobi game park where the
elephants are gradually reinstated in to a herd. Elephants need milk until they
are about three years and it takes another two years or so. They are given
human infant formula which is the closest to elephant milk.
We then went to view a new build house which Simon and
Cecelia were interested in, a very beautiful property in a gated community, but
prices were similar to those in England. We dropped intoa café in a little
railway town called Liauru where we had beans and chapati
We then went up to the area where the tea plantations went
on for miles we managed to see a flower farm by accident while we were looking
for the tea farm could not visit the factory but went around the estate and
bought some tea. Then we popped into a coffee mill and bought some coffee as
well. Then went to George and Mary’s
house in the Focus compound and saw the
family and had a very pleasant evening over yet another beautiful African meal.
A baby elephant having a mud bath
The keepers leading the elephants
An elephant coming to say hello
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