Ma and Pa, I can tell yas this know cause i'm gone but Nairobi should have been the place you were worried about me... not Egypt. Luckily for Steven and I, we had a great time and nothing happened :)
We arrived on Saturday and went to the mall cause all of Steven's clothes were dirty, and I mean visibly filthy from all the dust from the safari. So he got a new shirt and we grabbed some beer and decided we needed a night out on the town. We asked everyone we met to get an idea of where the best place to go would be. We ended up at a place called Gypsy bar. There were half locals, half white people. They played the top 40 so we had a blast. At 1:15 I was like, lets try another bar since I will likely never be here again. So off we went to another bar called Black Diamond. It was only just down the street, but you do not risk walking for even a minute at night, so into a taxi we went. We got there and boys of boys, I soon realized why so many women were pregnant. We were the only 2 white people, which was fine but it was the dancing that we felt so out of place with. It was a whole lot of booty shakin. That is the only way that I can explain it. If you have ever seen the YouTube video "Walley Walmart" well this is what was happening in the bar. We ended up only staying for 10 minutes. Steven was high fived by a couple of guys for "dating" me, a blond girl haha, we didn't tell them otherwise. So back to Gypsy bar we went until we hopped back in a cab at 3:45. Our hotel was on a one way 3 lane street and the way that the taxi came, we were about 100 metres from our hotel and he would have had to go up the one way. We were like its ok, we will sprint like hell to the hotel and theres a security guard at the gates.. and he thought it was so dangerous that he just went up the one way instead haha.
When you get into a vehicle, you lock the doors. At night, noone uses the street lights or street signs because if you stop you could get high jacked, so it is safer to just make up your own rules while driving.
We did some souvenir shopping (more me than Steven haha) and walked around the city. I took a tour to a place called Kibera which is the largest slum in Nairobi. It is the home to 1/3 the population of Nairobi. The guide took us to a school where I wanted to take home all of the children who were all orphans. We went to a women's group who were all HIV positive and trying to learn and teach their daughters how to provide for themselves instead of relying on the men. We visited a home which was one room, likely the size of an average living room in Canada. It had a bed, a couch, a coffee table, small TV and small kitchen. The toilet and showers were communal for the whole village. The issue is that to live outside of Kibera to say a small one bedroom apartment, the cost is substantially larger. So you see some people coming out of their homes very well dressed with brief cases. It was a great experience for the day but like anything else, told us alot about the charity and how much money they need.
We finished our time in Nairobi by visiting the museum where many of the first human fossils are stored as many of them were found in Africa. There was also a snake park at the museum which was pretty cool.
Steven's flight was at 11:30pm and mine not until 4:30am so I went to the airport anyways and slept on the floor for a couple of hours until my flight to Egypt.
Up next, my adventures in Egypt!
Miss yas!!
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