Report from Nairobi

Friday, 16 December 2011

University, and Music Conservatory in Nairobi

University of Nairobi campus

University of Nairobi is a corrupt free zone!

University of Nairobi campus on Thuku Road.

Entering the University of Nairobi campus on Thuku Road.

The American wing housing the Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering.

Beautiful lawn in University of Nairobi campus.

The book store in the library building, University of Nairobi campus

Kenya Conservatoire of Music is located next to the University of Nairobi campus.

The National Theatre was in the same compound as the Kenya Conservatoire of Music.

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Traffic Jam in Nairobi

An ambulance with a strip of red on the side of the roof made it through the cars on the ramp

Traffic bottle neck near the Westlands Matatus Stop

Traffic jam near the New Ngara Stage.

Do you want to try it!

A good business opportunity for car repair.

A lot of peddlers on the road means traffic bottle neck

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Shopping in Nairobi

Village Market shopping mall

The Nakumatt is a large chain super store

Zucchini shop in Village Market

China Centre - the stores were in the 2nd floor and up to the 4th. Most store were small and vacant. The Chinese grocery on the 2nd floor was small (3x5 m) and carries very little varieties. The photo above was the entrance to the shopping areas, and it was like the backdoor in garage.

Flower - there are many flower stands on the roadside. The cost of two dozen long stem roses and baby breath was only KES 200. It was a big business for exporting flowers to Europe.

Furniture - there were many roadside many furniture manufacturers and outlets.

Furniture - the import furniture were very expensive. The simple computer chair was KES 23,500. The sofa with two seaters and one reclining chair was KES 299,900.

The butcher shop next to the City Market. The local customer wore suits to do shopping.

There were many small stores in the City Centre selling flowers, vegetables and souvenirs. More souvenirs were also for sale in two rows of shacks behind the centre.

There were many souvenir shops on the street.

Small stall on the street

Each window was the store front of a separate tiny store.

A peddler selling baskets

Barbeque corn stand was everywhere in the city.

A lonely peddler on the United Nation Avenue, an area exclusively for expensive houses.

If there were many peddlers on the road it means traffic bottle neck was ahead.

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Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Bird Watching in Nairobi

Bird Watching in Nairobi

I am now in Nairobi, and just start to take bird photo using a Canon Powershot SX40 with a 35X zoom lenses. I use the guidebook “Birds of Kenya” by Amedeo Buonajuti to help me with the identification of the birds. If location is not mention in the comments, the photo is taken in a house on Runda Drive, Nairobi.

African Mourning Dove

African Pied Wagtail - Sun bathing with its belly feathers all puffing out.

Pin-tailed whydah in Kiambethu Tea Farm in Limuru.

Baglafetch Weaver photo on United Nation Avenue– In the guidebook, the bird is bright yellow under, but this photo shows bright dark orange. Have I made a mistake in the identification?

Bronze Sunbird – It made short distance dash to catch insect in the air.

Bronze Sunbird feeding

Variable Sunbird

Variable Sunbird in flight. I don't know the identity of the bird below.

Cape Robin Chat

Common Bulbul - It has a simple identification of a yellow feathers on its vent.

Hadada Ibis

House Sparrow

Olive Thrush – A very beautiful bird, and will act like a model to be photo

Pied crow

Silvered-cheeked Hornbill – It showed mottled silvery tipped on the facial feather. The feather under the belly is completely black with a white band toward its tail, but under a special lighting condition or the stretching of the feather, the black feather under the belly will have a scale like appearance with the brightness and colour of an oyster shell