As we crossed the Equator on our journey, we paused to watch a demonstration of how water swirls one way down a plug-hole in the Northern Hemisphere, the opposite way in the South and straight down when you are standing ‘on the line’!
Entering the park, you enter a beautiful and varied landscape, with Mount Kenya and its snowy peak, forming a backdrop to many of the views. We stayed in luxury tents (hot water bottles put in our beds at night!) that we stepped out of to views across the park including any passing gazelle, zebra, giraffe or rhino!
Caleb and Bethanie loved the game drives, heads out of the open roof of our vehicle looking hard for animals. Sweetwaters has the highest concentration of game per square km in Kenya, and the country’s largest herd of Black Rhino. We also met a hand-reared White Rhino named Max, who was the same age as Caleb and obligingly let us tickle his rough hide.
On the way home we stopped off at the “Trout Tree” restaurant – a restaurant built in and around a huge tree, with 33 trout-breeding pools below it. A fun experience but the camera had run out of battery by then so you’ll just have to imagine that bit!
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