We are off to Nairobi, Kenya, this September. The next few posts are straight from our experience here.
First to African continent, experienceing a different state of mind. The vehemence is at seeing a culture and people still some years behind us. Gives a fair idea on how this continent is yet to pickup speed while others who have already are taking advantage of the people who are just inches behind them.
Indians can be spotted every where in Nairobi, most hailing from the state of Gujarat. South Indians also come close by with few travelling with in the same flights. The others who traveled out of Chennai in our flight were from medical tourism. With the current NEET related issues in Tamil nadu and due to which vellore cmc having filled only 1 seat this year, one feels extremely sad about the vulnerability of medical aspirants and doctors in the country. While writing this, cant help offering our deep condolences to Anita, RIP.
Now back to Nairobi, the whose infrastructure is yet to match up to its growing vehicles on road manages take you to a 10 km distance in a hour. Thats how the journey was from the Jomo Kenyatta airport. The public transportation is all packed to full and vehicles are remodeled and old. Most of are from Japan and refurbished before sent here. Cameras at signals flash regularly capture speeding vehicles. Being a hilly region roads up and downtown. Most of the areas go by English names. Drivers mostly talk in English making it easy for foreigners.
The next day evening was the first day out after this airport trip. Nairobi has many restaurants which cater to Indian and Chinese cuisine in prominence. As the Navaratri has just started, most of city's population seem to have migrated to the celebration location on the Friday evening. So the much recommended restaurant was almost empty and the north Indian food that were offered to turned out amateurish.
More to come as we unravel this city in broad daylight...Pictures are from the apartment where we stayed
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