This was just outside my room at the Marsabit lodge....early 2005!! thats a long time ago...but the sight was one to behold...my mouth was just open...I couldnt even move....the elephant was so close...it was a young one and soon the older ones came closer as well...you see there was a salt pit (i think that's what its called) and it attracts them closer to the rooms and you can then marvel at them, up close and ...well, up close!!...and i took a picture of the two of them!!
After that, I have seen several of them, several times.....mostly on the way to Maralal...that park seems to have many walking around. There was one time we met a lone elephant...that thing was massive!! and right in the middle of the road....my colleagues told the driver, flash lights at it...am like....nooooooooooo.....i think i read somewhere that a lone elephant is not a happy elephant!! i was so scared....and luckily the elephant calmly walked away before the lights were flashed!!...and i took a picture of it as it sauntered away...
I have touched one in Tsavo East ama West, i forget which one....but for that one we had to wake up early in the morning so that we can get to the place where they are taken care of!! took a photo too (looking shocked at the proximity)!!
And the one that crowns it is David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, right here in Nairobi. Everytime we had colleagues come into Kenya, this was a must stop for them, but I had never been. So one morning we trooped there, my sisters and kids, even the neighbours kids!! That was mad fun! and i loved the way the kids marvelled at the baby elephants being given milk in massive bottles....loved that visit!!
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