Yesterday didn't happen. Honestly. I got to the hotel, checked in, got to my hotel room, and spent virtually all day and night asleep.

I've honestly never felt quite so rotten and tired as I did yesterday.

Then late on in the afternoon I had a phone call from reception to say that a safari trip was going the next morning, would I like to go. Sure, I said. It's a 7am start, they said. Urgh, I thought. Last thing I need... another early night. But I was up at 6am, had breakfast, and ready for the trip to the Nairobi Safari Park.

We got to the safari park not long after 7:30, and then had a bit of a wait whilst the people at the gate seemingly did nothing. Another group ahead of us had been waiting for an hour to go in, and there was a lot of arm waving and shouting. We managed to still get in ahead of them.

The park is 100km² just outside Nairboi. Amazingly close to Nairobi, actually. The first animals we saw were storks in the trees; these actually nest in trees all over central Nairobi, not just the park.

The animals gradually started to appear, as we drove further into the park.

Zebras we've all seen. We've all been to the zoo and seen them. They look beautiful, but to see them in their natural habitat, they are absolutely amazing!

In the bigger groups you really start to see how the stripes make them merge into one giant block of stripes. It gets very difficult to work out where one begins and the next ends.

The antelope and similar beasts were totally unafraid of humans. This seemed very strange, and totally unlike the deer back home.

The "beasts" and buffalo also were very close to the vehicels. Sometimes they felt a little too close....

We even got to see the white rhino.

 Again, the giraffe seem totally different in a "real" location. They never look right in zoos and parks, yet here they fit in perfectly, but still look vaguely Jurassic Park.

But the absolute highlight for me was the ostrich. It was just absolutely amazing to see these 140Kg - 180Kg birds with their chicks, behaving just the same as chicken and duck chicks do. It just showed how similar they are, despite the size.

There are a lot more pictures of the safari park here .

The tour of the safari park isn't cheap. It was US$140 per person, but that is for 4 hours, includes admission and a tour guide with a small group of four people, so when you put that all into perspective it's not really that bad. But if it was a few of you going, or a family, it would be a sizable chunk out of your holiday budget.