This half term was an ever changing one. Had a million plans, but what with hospital visits and generally being exhausted I ended up staying in Nairobi and actually had an awesome week. My friend Kelly and I did a few trips and enjoyed watching friends play Touch Rugby, exploring forests and going to Paradise Lost.
I have been meaning to go for ages and can't even remember how I heard about it as don't actually know anyone who has been. It is about 45 minutes north from me (though 2.5 hours on the way back when we got seriously lost and ended up downtown with people taking photos of us through the windows, cringe!) and is a huge picnic area. It was great to walk around and picnic, though we did turn down the offer of buying a live goat to then bbq! The waterfall was beautiful and we could walk behind it and explore the series of caves which the Mau Mau actually lived in during the resistance to the British.
The highlight though was seeing a church choir shooting a music video. We thought we'd sunbathe and watch but were almost immediately accosted (we didn't see any other wazungu so were a bit of a novelty) and invited to join them in the dancing. We refused, many times, and told them we were very happy to watch. When you travel by local transport here you often see these videos playing and they are hilarious! Interesting dance moves, and generally poor quality and pretty cringeworthy!
Well, to our delight, an Indian man happily obliged and joined in. We found the whole thing pure comedy as the poor guy had no clue and so was always out of time. I took many pics but didn't manage a video of him as was shaking with the giggles but did get a few pics.
Love it!!
I have been meaning to go for ages and can't even remember how I heard about it as don't actually know anyone who has been. It is about 45 minutes north from me (though 2.5 hours on the way back when we got seriously lost and ended up downtown with people taking photos of us through the windows, cringe!) and is a huge picnic area. It was great to walk around and picnic, though we did turn down the offer of buying a live goat to then bbq! The waterfall was beautiful and we could walk behind it and explore the series of caves which the Mau Mau actually lived in during the resistance to the British.
The highlight though was seeing a church choir shooting a music video. We thought we'd sunbathe and watch but were almost immediately accosted (we didn't see any other wazungu so were a bit of a novelty) and invited to join them in the dancing. We refused, many times, and told them we were very happy to watch. When you travel by local transport here you often see these videos playing and they are hilarious! Interesting dance moves, and generally poor quality and pretty cringeworthy!
Well, to our delight, an Indian man happily obliged and joined in. We found the whole thing pure comedy as the poor guy had no clue and so was always out of time. I took many pics but didn't manage a video of him as was shaking with the giggles but did get a few pics.
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| Incredible dance moves. Classic! |
Love it!!
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