July 2nd, 2012 
Emily Last weekend, we went to Aberdares National Park, which is a three-hour drive from Nairobi. I assumed an African game park would look just like the cartoon savannah from The Lion King, but Aberdares proved me wrong. The park (or the part of the park that we saw) is actually a forest. It’s quite cold [...]
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