Sounds I didn’t hear for a week

Life in Maasai Mara had a very different soundtrack than I am used to in New York City. Around Day Two, I noticed the lack of these sounds:

• Car horns – in Kenya, it’s called ‘hooting’ and you’re discouraged from doing it
• Sirens – police, fire, ambulance, all of it
• Planes flying overhead except once per day. The plane that flew us from Siana Springs back to Nairobi was one of those sounds.

• TV until I heard Kenyan hip hop at Mpopongi School
• TV news
• A weather or traffic report
• Spotify – no wifi signal to play it
• Iggy Azalea – except when my Emirates Air gate agent’s phone rang and its ringtone was “Fancy”

In contrast, these are sounds I did hear:

• Kids asking how many years I have – every day!
• Monkeys fighting
• A bird that sounded like the world’s worst metronome
• Bush bucks walking outside Julie and my tent
• Guitar Man singing John Denver songs

• Kenyan children singing “Welcome Our Visitors” each morning