Day 128: Nariobi, Kenya

Today I went touring around with my tour guide Judy and the driver. Interested to see what the real Africa is my tour guide and driver took me to the slums of Nariobi. The slums of Naroibi are the biggest slums in Africa and houses alot of the refuges from Sudan. We saw shacks after shacks of homes. The kids were curious about us and hovered around us. Some of them ran into their house when they saw the car, some have never seen a car before, as some are born, go to school, work, and die in the slums and never leave. The driver knew his way around as he had lived in the slums he was of middle class but wanted to live there to save money, he told me he even had a friend that was a lawyer that lived there to save money. The area had a sense of community. People were friendly and we stopped at a place they were making necklaces and earrings and bought some.The children were happy to see us and were jumping up and down. I was happy to see the children were well behaved and were not asking us for money. Went to lunch and had ugali which is maize based and they rolled it up in their hands and they eat with meats we had yummy coconut fish, they usually eat with their hands. Went to see Karen Blixiens house the woman who wrote 'Out of AFrica'. Went to a local game restaurant but there weren't any as there was a Rift valley virus going around. Found of Kenyans love to dance...Tribes are important in Africa as they drive the politics in Africa. Everyone belongs to one tribe or another. The biggest tribe is the Kikiyu's. Inter tribal marriages occur Fyi....Barcak Obama belongs to the Lamu tribe.