We left The Ark this morning and went on a bus back to the Aberdare Country Club, where we met Nafton, our bus driver, and headed for Nanyuki. We stopped at the equator for some pictures and heard and saw a demonstration from a man wearing a Chicago Cubs jacket about the coriolis effect on water 20 meters north of the equator (water rotates in a clockwise motion when falling downward), 20 meters south of the equator (water rotates in a counter-clockwise motion when falling downward), and at the equator (water does not rotate at all).
We then went to the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy and Animal Orphanage. Our guide, Benson, showed us all of the animals there, many of whom were orphaned and will be released back to the wild. There are bongo and cheetah breeding programs here, as well as different types of monkeys, several ostriches, tortoises, a baby zebra, bush bucks, a porcupine, forest pigs, pygmy hippos (a gift from West Africa), llamas (a gift from South America), and other animals that are used in educating school children and other visitors about wildlife conservancy in Kenya.
On our way back to Embu, we stopped for lunch at the Trout Tree restaurant and had a delicious meal. This restaurant is unique in that it is built in and around a huge mugumo tree and serves fresh trout from the trout ponds that are on site. Tree hyrax, Colobus monkeys, and birds can be found on the Trout Tree grounds, along with trout.
Below are a few photos of some of the sights we saw as we drove from Nanyuki back to Embu this afternoon.
After the satisfying meal, most of us took a nap in the bus as we drove back to Embu.
