My hosts like to go to bed after dinner, which is about 6:30pm, so i was in bed at around 7:30pm. people use to think i slept early @ 9:30pm lol! problem is i wake up around 3am.
2 nights in a row i've woken up with headaches around 3am. Karl says its the altitude and will take a while to adjust, being at around 2,200mtrs above sea level. i do notice i'm puffing just walking between my cabin and the house. i thought i was unfit and fat from muffins and cappuccinos. ha, probably am.
went into Nanyuki town today. just another African town but is suppose to be pretty modern by african standards. they have supermarkets, banks, coffee shops, hardware shops etc, but not the bunnings, coles, ikea or gloria jeans i'm use to lol. so far all the people smile and are nice. quite a few beggars around and people trying to sell to the mazungu (white man). not much different to Collins St and George St back in Australia i guess.
weather has been overcast and drizzling most of the time. its suppose to be the dry season with showers in the morning and evening, but i guess i brought the melbourne weather with me. its jeans and jumper when its raining and shorts and t-shirt when its not.
i will probably move into my cabin with Bili tomorrow. should be interesting sleeping in a room next to a huge chimp.
hmm, we do tend to take electricity and water for granted dont we? not here. blackouts and no water happen too often. makes u very humble to not take basic things for granted.
i am watching Karls documentaries. they are blunt and to the point and don't pull punches. he has made many documentaries on the decline of primates in africa due to locals eating chimps and gorillas or trading them rich fat westerners and arabs. he struggles to get them published because the national geographics and lonely planet only want to show documentaries with happy endings, and his documentaries don't have happy endings. they are the truth that people dont want to know about. i wish i could share it with you all.
2 nights in a row i've woken up with headaches around 3am. Karl says its the altitude and will take a while to adjust, being at around 2,200mtrs above sea level. i do notice i'm puffing just walking between my cabin and the house. i thought i was unfit and fat from muffins and cappuccinos. ha, probably am.
went into Nanyuki town today. just another African town but is suppose to be pretty modern by african standards. they have supermarkets, banks, coffee shops, hardware shops etc, but not the bunnings, coles, ikea or gloria jeans i'm use to lol. so far all the people smile and are nice. quite a few beggars around and people trying to sell to the mazungu (white man). not much different to Collins St and George St back in Australia i guess.
weather has been overcast and drizzling most of the time. its suppose to be the dry season with showers in the morning and evening, but i guess i brought the melbourne weather with me. its jeans and jumper when its raining and shorts and t-shirt when its not.
i will probably move into my cabin with Bili tomorrow. should be interesting sleeping in a room next to a huge chimp.
hmm, we do tend to take electricity and water for granted dont we? not here. blackouts and no water happen too often. makes u very humble to not take basic things for granted.
i am watching Karls documentaries. they are blunt and to the point and don't pull punches. he has made many documentaries on the decline of primates in africa due to locals eating chimps and gorillas or trading them rich fat westerners and arabs. he struggles to get them published because the national geographics and lonely planet only want to show documentaries with happy endings, and his documentaries don't have happy endings. they are the truth that people dont want to know about. i wish i could share it with you all.
Can he post his documentaries somewhere for us to view?
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