Nairobi, birds and clouds! African lions and elephants, birds and clouds! This is the first impression after getting off the plane. By the way, I exchanged some local currency at the airport - Kenyan shillings, exchange rate: 1 RMB = 13.6 KSH; 1 USD = 86 KSH.

The second impression is that there is often a man walking by with an AK-47, who is not sure whether he is a policeman or a gangster. I just don't dare to take a photo. This is a photo of the guard secretly taken in the hotel at night. It is noisy because it was taken with high sensitivity. I want to show that this photo conveys a real security threat.

And always remind yourself not to forget that there may be bullets hidden behind the beautiful scenery. So the most dangerous place in Kenya is in the city, and the safest place is to enter the reserve and stay with wild animals! This is not a joke, it is the real fact!

After a lot of trouble, I got in the car and started the car. More than 90% of the cars I saw in Kenya were second-hand cars made in Japan. Maybe because of the right-hand drive rule, the Japanese bought all their old cars here, so it is very difficult to find a new car here. Let's talk about the language - the official languages ​​are Swahili and English.

Both are taught in schools. Another popular language is Sheng, which is a mixture of English, Swahili and Bantu. It was used by young people in cities before, but now it is used by all walks of life. Foreigners usually use English, and even the natives can basically communicate with you in English.

But Kenyans prefer their national language Swahili, so learning a few simple words and speaking them will make them feel more at home. I have tried them all the way and they are very helpful. Here are a few words: jambo--hello, samahani--excuse me, ndiyo--yes, hapana--no, kwaheri--goodbye, rafiki--friend of Yunluo, asante--thank you.

As soon as you exit Nairobi Airport, within a kilometer, the roadside is covered with iron nets. Can you see the whole left side of the road? On the other side of the iron net is the world's closest animal sanctuary, the "Nairobi Animal Sanctuary". It is right next to the airport and the city. On the other side of the iron net are the wild animals!

The zoos I visited in China kept animals locked up, but when I arrived in Nairobi, my first impression was that this was an animal world where people were kept in the middle of iron nets, and vice versa.

I climbed on the car with my camera and watched for a long time, but I didn't see any animal hair. I was a little disappointed. I asked the local guide, and he said that animals basically wouldn't come over because it was noisy on the road. Don't worry, Yunluo will go outside the iron fence when he arrives in Masai Mara in a few days. He said that he could see animals everywhere near the car.

I couldn't see the wild animals in the woods on the other side of the wire fence, but when I looked up, oh my god! The sky was full of vultures flying, it was a bit scary. It looked like a beast had caught its prey not far away and was eating the meat, and the group of birds in the sky were waiting to eat the leftovers. I used a telephoto lens to capture two of them, and found that in addition to the vultures, there were many of these things flying.

I asked. This big bird is called the Marabou, and it also eats carrion. It turns out to be a cousin of the vulture. Then I heard that this thing not only eats carrion but also eats garbage. It looks for food in the garbage dump in Nairobi every day. I didn't expect it to be an "environmentalist" and know how to recycle waste. What a good bird!

We are about to enter the city. Here is a picture. This road was built by the Chinese. And many asphalt roads in African countries are built by the Chinese. Kenya's roads are driven on the left, so all cars are driven on the right.

I caught this on the roadside between the airport and the city. One word: chaos! Two words: poverty! I wonder if this place is far from the world's second largest slum, Kibera.

Entering the city, there are not many billboards. But the giant condom advertisement in front of him still makes Yun Luo's eyes light up. This is the first time in my life that I have seen such a big brand selling condoms!

But I guess it's more of a public welfare thing than a commercial one. AIDS is rampant in Africa. But due to people's cultural quality and economic conditions, many people don't use condoms, which leads to more and more abuse, so such advertising is necessary.

The Hindu temple on the roadside said that they have a different view of Indians this time. Indians have a great influence in the Middle East, East Africa and North Africa. I just mentioned that 84% of the residents in Qatar are Indian immigrants or descendants. I didn't expect that 65% of Kenya's economy is also controlled by Indians.

Many places, big supermarkets, hotels, banks, are run by Indians. They were brought by the British to help manage the blacks during the British colonial period, because they were loyal to the colonial masters, just like most of the guards in the Beijing concessions were Indians. After the British were driven away, these helpers actually inherited a lot of their masters' inheritance until now!

The driver first took Yunluo to the most modern place in the center of Nairobi, the Kenyatta International Conference Center. This is the only place along the way that looks close to modern society. The statue of Kenyatta, who led Kenyans to overthrow British colonial rule.

The Kenyatta International Conference Center was built in 1967 and put into use in the early 1970s. The entire building has 32 floors and covers an area of ​​410,000 square feet.

Check in hotel: safariparkhotel. To be honest. After passing through the big iron gate, I found that the conditions here are better than Yunluo imagined. It is not a safarihotel at all, but a resort. However, this is the only hotel with such a good environment. Tomorrow, when we enter the reserve, we will start to feel like a real safari.

In the room of Safariparkhotel. A group of photos taken inside the hotel. The environment and conditions are quite impressive. But just outside the big iron gate guarded by armed guards, there is poverty, chaos, and terrorist attacks. It's like a world of difference between inside and outside the wall! Poor countries treat foreigners like this. China was the same when it was poor.

I still remember when I was a kid, there was a hotel in the provincial capital that was reserved for the few foreigners in China at that time. At that time, the feeling of looking inside and never being able to get in was probably the same as that of the African people outside the wall.

The hotel's barbecue dinner at night was authentic. A red-hot iron plate was placed in front of us. Various grilled meats were placed on it and then drizzled with various sauces. Pork, lamb, cow, camel, ostrich. Various kinds of meat. There were also indigenous performances while we ate the meat. This kind of treatment really hasn't been seen in China. Is this in Africa? In the chaotic Nairobi?

Today's target is Nawasha. Nawasha is a lake with many birds and hippos to take pictures of. More importantly, there is an island in the middle of it. There are only herbivores on the island, no carnivores. So it is a rare place where you can walk to the forest to find animals. Go forward. This is an African baboon, everywhere, just running rampant in the middle of the road. There are many more monkeys than in Mount Emei.

Here is a picture of the wound of the earth - the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. According to the research of geologists, about 30 million years ago, due to the strong crustal fracture movement, the continental drift movement separated from the Arabian ancient landmass formed this rift valley. It is the largest fracture zone on the world's continent.

When flying over the vast Indian Ocean and entering the equator of the East African continent, looking down from the window, you can see a huge "knife mark" on the ground.

We arrived at the countryclubhotel where we were staying today. It was the place where I had stayed when I first came here. It was right by the lake. From time to time, animals would walk to the door of the room in the garden.

Interior view of countryclubhotel. By the way, during lunch, a long-legged deer came to Yunluo's head and ate leaves. At night, two hippos were found less than 50 meters away from the room. They quickly hid. This guy is aggressive.

The cars at the entrance are all safari-specific, and all have two spare tires. The road conditions in Africa are extremely bad, so tire blowouts are common, and two spare tires are reliable.

The word safari will be mentioned repeatedly later. Its original meaning refers to a hunting or safari trip. However, since hunting is no longer allowed, it specifically refers to a way of traveling in a protected area to pursue animals. In fact, the word "pursuit" alone cannot fully express the meaning. Only by experiencing this feeling in person can you understand the full meaning of the word safari.

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There are hippos and crocodiles in this dark lake. I heard that hippos have attacked boats. So boat drivers are very careful and drive slowly, for fear of being too close to underwater hippos. The safe distance is at least 50 meters.

This is a snapshot of a bird hovering in the air, ready to dive into the water to catch a fish. The killer appears. The giant hippopotamus often hides at the bottom of the water, and from time to time it comes out of the water, revealing its eyes. This is the real reason for the danger - you don't know where it will suddenly appear.

About 40 meters away from the boat, a group of killers were staring at Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi's boat. Horrible.

This photo doesn't show how dangerous it is, but in fact this male weighs at least 2.5 tons, almost as much as two cars. Hippos may look simple and honest, but they are violent and fierce, and have a strong sense of territory. If someone breaks into their territory, they will attack with their 0.4-meter fangs, and can kill a person with just one bite from their mouth.

The hippopotamus is the animal with the largest mouth on land, and the bite force of an adult hippopotamus can reach more than 1 ton. It is the land mammal with the greatest bite force in existence.

We went to the island and started to walk to look for wild animals. I heard there were no wild animals, but I was still a little nervous when I walked there, after all, even herbivores are wild beasts. The first thing I found was a giraffe.

There are so many animals. There are no ferocious beasts here. It is a paradise island for them. Most of the trees in the forest are acacias, which are named after their golden trunks. They are very beautiful. They are very beautiful like the flat-topped acacias we saw later on the grassland.

Wildebeests only eat young grass. Zebras eat the same kind of grass, but they wait until the grass is a little older before eating it. (To be continued...)