Back in March, I had a plan to visit Djibouti, Somaliland and Ethiopia. Kenya was not on the list. While Djibouti was interesting, but also filthy, expensive, hot and home to armies of aggressive mosquitoes. My tolerance for roughing it has waned over the years so I left. I was planning on traveling overland to Somaliland - a quasi independent territory of Somalia - but Somaliland makes Djibouti seem like Club Med so I instead booked a ticket to Kenya. That’s where these hippos live. If you ever get the chance to go to Kenya, take a trip through Masai Mara National Reserve and say hello to these cuties. Be sure to stay upwind of them though - there are hundreds of them and they spend all night eating and then all day shitting in this slow moving river. This is why hippos make lousy pets.