Jakey Jake

Thursday 24th June
After an early morning breackfast of pancakes we jumped on the truck and headed out towards Nakuru national park. Its one of only 2 places that have leopards which climb trees. When we got to the gates of the national park we stopped for some lunch, we were surrounded by baboons and monkeys and it quickly reminded me of when we were in India and they attacked us, so i was a bit more cautious of them than the others. As we started making lunch one of the monkies jumped into a park car and started stealing their food, which was pretty funny, and then Chris deided to shoo away one of them he felt was getting near, he didnt notice another monkey coming from the other side which grabbed his lunch. We jumped back into the truck and started our 24 hours in the park. We came across another million zebras and water buffalo, tonnes of flamingoes and impalas. We also came across quite a lot of Rhinos, but unfortunately we didnt come across any tree climbing leopards. As dusk approached we headed to our campsite in the park (yes we were camping in amongst all the animals), we were lucky to make it there though as we passed a waterfall and the truck came to a steep ascent which Johnnys skilful driving managed to get us through. As we were setting up camp we were surrounded by about 15 baboons and they started to chase chris when he got too close to take photos. It was pretty funny but it couldve easily been a whole lot worse. Another Worldwide truck pulled into the campsite and started to setup camp. Corrado cooked a delicious dinner, and we started asking lisa about some of the more dangerous things which had happened on tours. She told us about a 94 kumuka trip into rawanda where all the tourists and crew except one were hacked to death. And another truck had a passenger die, but they all decided not to head back and wrapped his body in a sleeping bag and kept it on the truck for 3 days while they explored serengetti. She also mentioned numerous others had been eaten by crocodiles and lions as well as being poisoned by snakes. After our lovely conversation we decided to go and make friends with the other truck. They had 33L of red wine to drink and everyone decided it was a good idea to play some drinking games, and in the morning everyone agreed that it hadnt been such a good idea