Ewriting Format by Carl Peterson © 2002

KENYA
NAIROBI
1978
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NAIROBI 
ANIMAL PARK
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TO SAMBURU
GAME PRESERVE

Crossed the equator.

Market had fresh bananas.

Hotel had thatched roofs. 

Monkeys came in 
through roof.

Very comfortable.

Sit by river
and watch crocodiles 
tear apart a 
goat or lamb.

If you leave 
the dining room
after dark 
an attendant
with a gun
takes you back
to your room.


NAROBI
ANIMAL PARK

TSAVO PARK
ELEPHANT DAMAGE

One elephant 
can wipe out 
a village.

SALT LICK
TREETOP HOTEL

AM tea in room
then game drive.

Come back for
breakfast.

A whistle 
signaled you 
to go to a vehicle
to see the animals.

VW busses with 
pop-up tops.

No one leaves
the bus.

Birds eat from 
your table.

Birds perch on side
of sugar bowl.
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NORTHERN
KENYA

Reticulated Giraffes.

5,000 feet 
elevation.

Looked like Colorado.

Cool nights
like Colorado.

This was 
their winter.

Summer much
hotter.

Group of elephants
playing in the river
with the babies.

Our driver was
Mohammed Ali.

Never stare
at baboons
or they 
will attack.

Treetops waterhole
built on stilts.

You could watch 
the animals at night.

Princess Elizabeth 
stayed there.
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MOUNT KENYA
SAFARI CLUB

Built by
William Holden

Very plush.

Ice and butter
carvings with dinner.

Elephant tusks
on both sides
of the doors.
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ANOTHER TREETOP

Narrow dining room
for food.

Put the food
on a pulley.

Rang a bell 
if animals came.
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KIVUKU or Kikaya

Coffee raised.

Green hilly country.

"Something of value"
book was about the
massacres in this
area.

Graveyard for
Mountbatten.

Roads were 
very good.
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MASA MARA

Crossed the 
great Rift Valley

Giraffes everywhere.

We couldn't go to Tanzania.

We saw the migration 
of wildebeasts.

We saw a dark rock wall?

No, it was 
a line of 
wildebeasts.

Very dumb like
bison.

Migrate like
reindeer in Alaska.

Many are killed
on the trip
by crocodiles
and lions.

Storks,  hyenas,
and wild dogs.

Dogs run
in packs.

Eat as they run.

Lions are afraid 
of the Massai
and water buffalo.

Hot air balloon
rides available.

One balloon 
was drug by
the wind.

Saw cheetahs
with their babies.

Saw a boa 
constrictor 
that had eaten
a wildebeast.

Laid there 
for a month.

Much of area 
was dried up
lake beds.

Natives burned
the forest.

Massai natives
are very tall.

Their wealth
is their cattle.

Grow gourds 
to hold
blood, milk, and urine.

Houses made
of cow manure.

Ladies used 
manure on heads.

Babies have
ears pierced.

Mother's stretch the 
child's ear loops
with film canisters
and disks.

Massai are 
good hunters.

Now it's against 
the law to kill 
a lion.

Young men
used to have
to kill a lion.

Cattle rustlers
were a problem.

We saw only
three rhinocerous.

A lion was 
too close
to get a picture.

Natives walked
thirty miles to see
a museum.

Transportation was
pickup trucks.

AMBROSELI PRESERVE

Across from 
Mount Kilamanjaro.

Elephants destroying
the trees.

No electricity
at night.

Hot water in room 
on demand.

Stayed in Massai-type 
house
built of concrete.

Curved doorway entry
to house.

Cattle brought
into house area
at night.

Children heard
the cattle.

Children covered 
with flies.

Eyes matted shut
by the flies.

Flies and cowdung
everywhere.

Flies got between
the suitcases
in the van.

Massai are
beautiful people
all wear red.

If you are 
accused of murder
it costs 100 cattle.

Murder outside
the tribe 
doesn't count.

MOMBASA
Indian Ocean

Warehouses full
of ivory.

Trading center
for century.

Railroad Mombasa
to Nairobi.

Newspaper each day
"The Nation."

A man illegally
charged a toll 
for a bridge.

They bit him
to death by evening.

MOMBASA

East Indians are 
the merchants.