Nairobi Animal Orphanage

On Sundays we have outing time. You have the option to go or not, and take some boys if you like. Nils, Gil, Lucy, and us took about 6 boys with us to go to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage at the National Park (which is right down the road). It was a fun day to get out, see some animals, and do something new.


The baboons walk freely around the city. We have heard stories from multiple people saying how fierce and dangerous these animals really are. Apparently if you throw an arrow at them, they can catch it, and throw it back at you. ha... Also a story about how a baboon was in the garden at Bosco Boys. They released one of the watch dogs to scare it away. The baboon saw it coming, picked up a stick, jumped into a tree and hid. Then when the dog came close, it jumped out, and beat the dog to death with the stick. So we kept our distance from the baboons but still took a picture. If you leave it alone, it'll leave you alone.

Pretty bird pretty bird

Nils wanted to get a picture next to the cheetah. This shows how close you can be to the cages and it's only a chain link fence.

So we go asked by the zoo keepers if we wanted to take a picture next to a cheetah. Next thing we know he's walking us over to a cage, opens it up, and invites us in. So... we were feeling bold and we did it. Of course they just wanted a tip but a one dollar tip is quite enough here. So we figure one dollar to touch a cheetah? Worth it

Some of the boys were hesitant to touch the cheetah. Truthfully we all were at first but some came in and we took a picture.

I think I could have taken the cheetah, he was pretty old and weak looking ;)

Good kitty

Our friend Martin. This kid is hilarious. He swears he is from Canada but wears an Australian boy scouts uniform everyday. He speaks English really well and is actually one of the best behaved kids at the school. He really is a pleasure to be around because he makes us laugh so much.

The only thing between us and this tiger is a chain link fence. You had to be about 3 yards from the fence. In America there would be huge fences and top security. But in Africa there's only a little fence. TIA (this is Africa)

This little cheetah was running around with two other ones in its cage. It then climbed on the fence by us and we got this picture.

Lunch. It was crazy because the zoo keeper (if he really is a zoo keeper, seemed more like a guy who happened to work at the zoo that day) walked right up to the lion as it was eating.

Trying to get the older boys to smile.