Monday morning bright and early our tour guide arrived for the final leg of our adventure. It's approximately two hours to the Mt. Kenya Safari Club. And what a nice scenic drive. Of course we are ready for the R & R...
No more mashed potatoes with bananas, baked banana that tasted like wall paper paste, hopefully a mattress more than 4" thick and all the wonderful things we Americans expect. We are spoiled. Anyone who doesn't appreciate what their ancestors did for them should be ashamed. There are a lot of people taking plastic jugs to various water fountains and pumps to fill for the day. All ages, mostly walking, some on bikes. Can't see where they are from, so have come a long ways.
We take our first safari before going to the five star accomodations. Of course we see impalas (pretty plentiful) and gazelles. The pea hens and lots of wild boar (which really made me hungry for a well done juicy pork roast). My mouth really watered!
One of the first sightings was water buffalo. They are large! Glad we were in the vehicle. This 8 seater had a pop up top that we could stand and look out. We saw a blind rhinoceros which they are protecting. They saw off his horn and it grows back! Didn't know that. We also tour the protected area for the chimps. Some of them are from protected areas and transferred here. Some they have found in private captivity, and abused in other areas. Did you know their DNA is 98.4% the same as humans? Quite startling statistic! I know, ..some of us act like that yet. 
Next stop the Safari Club. We had driven past Mt Kenya and it's three peaks till we were on the west side of it (I think) and only one peak was showing. But we had arrived! How beautiful! Couldn't have found anything more lovely and restful appearing. The room was wonderful. The first thing I did was run the tub full of hot water with bath salts, grab a beer and enjoy. How great that was!! We ate there and just enjoyed the place. This place had tennis courts, swimming pool and a large maze. Oh, and the bed. Large and soft enough. It was turned down for us and she also put a hot water bottle in it. Mmmm! This place also had it's own heliport with helicopter sitting ready. Of course that wasn't in our itinerary... we liked the 4 hour trip by car. 
On Tuesday we hung around after a nice breakfast outside (with the pelicans who'd join us if we didn't chase them off). The temperature the whole trip was 70-85 degrees. Wonderful weather. And did I tell you it was on the equator? This next picture I am standing on the equator. To my right is the northern hemisphere and knee wall on my left said southern hemisphere. This place also had something to do with the actor William Holden (if you're old enough to know who that was!). 
About noon we were again picked up and had a second safari. We went to a neat resort, had lunch and went out back to a watering hole. While we were eating two rhino were enjoying the water. They left and some impala, guinea hens and more came and went. Then came the giraffes. Thirteen in all. What I took as a dominant male giraffe walked around the watering hole, stopped and looked at us and we must have been okay... they drank and we enjoyed the view. There were several large herds of elephant today also. It was a great day. 
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