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When you're not interested in a job as volunteer, you should bring a visit and support this noble project. The office is located in Diani, approximately 5km from the Ukunda junction.It's worth a try.
The Wakuluzu trust is a local organization run by Paula Kahumbu, committed to saving the Angolan Colobus Monkey and preserving it's coastal forest habitat. Only 2,000 Angolan Colobus remain in Kenya with less than 50% of these outside the protection of National Parks, reserves or sacred forests.
Going "off the beaten path" is not something I would recommend while on safari. You have to remember that you are living among wild animals and that they roam very near (and sometimes within) the camps.I wanted to get a photo of me and an elephant. I approached as close as I safely could and had the photo snapped quickly. Fortunately, the elephant was good natured and somewhat of a camera ham.I never did get the photo I really wanted...me and a lion.
It is not the grown ups that do the real work. The youngest are in charge over the cattle, they are the Herdsmen and are send out during the day to watch the animals. The older men lie in the shade and do nothing, the women work also. The older boys hang out and pretend to be at work sometimes.Girls are always dressed, not so the boys as you see.
The Rift is about 6000 kilometers long, stretching from southern Africa to Jordania.And the views are varied as you see, from green to yellow and flat to mountainous. So there must be in something for everyone.
The Pokot are a very interesting tribe living in Kenya on border with Uganda. U can meet them if you go north from lake Baringo. They are semi nomadic tribe living mostly on cattle. There are about 220,000 of them and they are one of the most less developed communities in Kenya.
Voi is a large-ish market town just before one of the gates to Tsavo East NP. It's a very lively town and - apparently - quite prosperous, too. We did not have time to spend too long there... just enough time to visit the endless colourful market, and nothing else. Yet it's one of the most impressive markets I have seen in Kenya: all along the main road seems to be a maret, as if there was no other job to do than that of a salesperson. Bizarre, for sure... and I could not help wondering - with so many stalls - how many people actually do some shopping. There seemed to be no proportion.
Just outside tsavo east national park, a couple of kilometres off the town of Voi, it's possible to visit a traditional masai village: Maakeena. The visit was not free, the masai ask for about 5 euros for each visitor, but it was very enjoyable. Included is a little show of traditional dances and a demonstration of how to light fire with just a stick and a stone. This part turned out to be the most boring and predictable one. What I enjoyed was seeing their traditional mud houses - decorated to celebrate the birth of a new baby 3 days before, and hearing their tales about traditional life - like for example how a person needs to kill a lion to become a man and be able to get married. Fpr Masai people pictures please have a look at my travelogue
The ruins of old Gedi are very mysterious. The only sure fact is that it used to be an Arab-african town built in the 12th century. it flourished until the 17th century and then it was abandoned. No one knows how or why. There are no records of the town in Portuguese, Arabic or Swahili scripts, yet it was only a couple of kilometres from the main trade route. The outlay is like a typical medieval Swahili town, with a magnificant palace, several houses (complete with eleborate toilet systems) and a couple of mosques - now intermingling with the jungle. Houses take their name from objects found in them - thus you have, for example, the house of the Venetian bead or the house of the Chinese vase.The ruins of Gedi are located about 20 kilometres from Malindi, near the village of Gedi and Watamu
I would have missed the village of gedi if our car hadn't been stuck in a deep pool of water - causing the engine to stop and water to come in from the rusty car bottom. While we were waiting for the engine to dry, we had some time to walk around this charming little village - and what a delight it has been. We visited the colourful market and bought delicious Kenyan sugar - and bumped into a large group of children coming out from school. Everyone was eager to say jambo to us and to enquire about where we were from. Definitely Gedi is the most authentic and friendliest village weve been to. it's located about 20 kilometres from Malindi, on your way to the ruins of the ancient city of Gedi.
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