Wednesday, May 6, 2009

hell's gate national park

there is a national park near naivasha, kenya, called hell's gate. it is pretty unique in that visitors are allowed to rent bicycles and guide themselves around the entire park (which even contains a few predators!). the day after climbing mt. longenot, we decided to check it out. pictured above is hell's rather gorgeous entrance!

i actually meant to capture some zebras with this photo and missed entirely.

we saw ostriches and lamented eating their meatballs a few days earlier.

animals were everywhere in and around the road...

...so it was pretty easy to get up close and personal with things
i'd previously seen only in cartoons or on crackers!


i think my favorite were the giraffes...

...who were pretty scared of us...

...but were kind enough to pose for a few nice photos.

2 comments:

Jaime T. said...

Wow - I can't even believe the landscape there. As usual, your pictures are amazing.

Sara said...

Jonah (and I) really loved the animal photos. Later, we were at Target, and he saw a giraffe on a card and said, "Giraffe!! Like Monkle Ricky's giraffe!" Fun stuff.