Shedrick Elephant Park

A little over a week ago, before camp, along with Nils and his girlfriend Annelien we went to the elephant orphanage. It was a bit of a hike to get there but was fun. This is a center where they bring in orphaned elephants from national parks all over Kenya. Many of the elephants parents were killed from illegal hunting for ivory or the baby elephant is sick. The place over looked the Kenyan National Park, which isn't too far down the road from Bosco Boys. It was beautiful scenery. We did take many more pictures on another camera but since the size of those picture files are so large, it would take forever to upload them. We'll upload them one day when we get back.



Walking to the orphanage.


The warthog's are bathing in the background.

This guy walked right up to us.

This is the smallest guy in the orphanage. He is maybe 3 feet tall.

These are the elephant caretakers, they fed them bottled milk.


Nils really wanted to hug an elephant. After he did this, his shirt was completely covered in mud.

So afterwards we went to an area called "Bomas". There we did some small shopping at little shops and got a bite to eat. Nils saw a cat walking around and decided to be a cat also. This is a picture of him crawling towards the cat (which is under the table in the background). The people sitting next to us thought he was pretty "cheesy" (which is slang for crazy in Kiswahili).