As I landed, I was greeted by smiling faces and very helpful locals who guided us to the immigration and baggage claim counters.
Stepping out of the airport, The first words I heard were "Karibu" ( Welcome) and "Jambo!" ( hello!) in Swahili. Through the rest of the trip I hope to pick up a few more words so that I can find my way around if I ever need to.
My first impressions of the city of Nairobi....
CLEAN...
GREEN...
buzzling with activity early in the morning... people leave for work at seven am!
brilliant weather... such a relief after 43 degrees of Chennai.
I spent the day looking around the city, at the old colonial style buildings, government offices and ofcourse, did a bit of shopping. :)
The most suprising part is the civilized and curteous way the people treat you. Unlike the notions I had in my head of the locals, the seem very happy to help whenever they can.
This contradicts the stories I've heard of people being held at gun point for money and jewellery being stolen.
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was the gunpoint jewelery story referring to me? cos that really happened to me!!! anyway, yea, Africans are the sweetest people in the world, although they are both very brazen and very naive.. i want to go back!!! (:'-( )
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