• Stuffy noses and a bang

    Aug 18–19 in Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Instead of just one rest day, we stayed at Ol Maisor for two more days, to let Laura recover from the cold she had caught (lounging mostly in the comfy hammock that Tim had wisely brought).

    The third night got a bit too exciting for our liking: We had just gone to bed when we heard trucks racing by, shouting, and gun shots. We first messaged Richard, who apparently had his phone turned off, but then we managed to reach another person from the farm, who told us that it was just some "naughty elephant boys" rummaging through the farm's crops, and the rangers went to scare them away. How relieving!

    Also, by the third day, the frozen dinner options and the toast and eggs for breakfast had gotten very repetitive, so the next morning we set off towards our final stop in the Laikipia wilderness: The Glass Room
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