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sachara Says: Kitale is not only a good base to visit Mount Elgon National Park and Saiwa Swamp National Park, but the town itself had also something to offer like the Kitale Museum. In the spacious gardens with labelled indigenous trees you can find a gallery exhibiting an ethnographic...
Mount Elgon NP, walks and trails
sachara Says: The forest of Mount Elgon National Park is very inviting to walk along the existing trails. At the parkgate you can arrange a guide.Because of the thick forest it is not easy to see many animals. There are leopards, buffalos, waterbucks and many birds. We saw a huge group of...
Mount Elgon National Park, forest
sachara Says: From the Kitum cave we had a nice view at the forest at the slopes of the Mount Elgon. The forest is a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees, including the magnificent East African Cedar, reaching heights of over 30 M.The branches of the treed are often covered with the...
Mount Elgon National Park, Kitum cave
sachara Says: One of the four caves you can visit in the Mount Elgon National Park is the Kitum cave. The saline loving elephants most often visit this cave. They may arrive at any time from dusk till about midnight. They are real excavators. The amount of these special elephants has...
Mount Elgon National Park, caves and minerals
sachara Says: There are four caves in the Mount Elgon National Park to explore. These caves are formed in the mountains by the action of water on the ancient volcanic ash.These caves played a vital and unique role in the lives of the forest animals. But also families and sometimes entire...
sachara Says: Mount Elgon is lying at the border of Kenya and Uganda. The mountain is an imposing extinct vulcano of 4320 M. At the side of Kenia is the Koitoboss peak with warm water springs in the the crater at 3.500 M.The biggest attraction are the elephants who visit the caves on the...
sachara Says: Kitale is a lifely town with a big market, a lot of shops, some restaurants, small hotels and lodges and internetcafes.Kitale is a good place to do some shopping. Except bread and vegetables we had to buy a new matrass and to go to the pharmacy. From Kitale you can easily...
Mount Elgon, campground: Mount Elgon, selfsupporting camp
sachara Says: There are twocampgrounds in Mount Elgon National Park. At our campsite were no cooking facilities. We brought our own campkitchen and bought our food in Kitale.The camp was provided with a big hole for garbage. During the night some servals visit this place. We saw their...
sachara Says: With local busses and matutu's you can visit almost every town and village in Kenya. At Kitale are normal matutu's and Nissan matutu's for twice the price.The bus and matutu park in Kitale is rather chaotic, but the people are very friendly to show you the right way to the...
Traditional life style of the Pokot
sachara Says: Many Pokot do live still very traditional with their goats, patinated gourds of milk or booze and tamarind seeds. They use also headrests, stools, wrist-knife and fingerknife.In the compound we saw a woman with a calebas container, but we didn't really understand what she...
sachara Says: The Pokot still have a lot of ceremonies. The elders of the community are making prayings and offerings. The medicine man has a significant role in maintaining the spiritual balance within the community. And feasts and dances are held to thank the deities for the generosity....
Pokot ceremony of name´s giving
sachara Says: In one of the huts in the compound of the Pokot people, where we were introduced, we were asked to attend a ceremony.In the hut a medicine man and some elders of the community were gathered for a name's giving ceremony. The mother with her child was also sitting in the hut,...
Pokot woman, grinding the corn
sachara Says: The Pokot people have still some traditional local lifestyles. The cow people are not only milking their cows, but take also their blood.The corn people are still grinding their corn with traditional tools of stone. A woman in the conmpound showed how to do this work, like...
All the kids of the compound came to the dancing
sachara Says: We were no the only ones, who were interested in the traditional Pokot dances.Also all the kids from the village came to have a look at the dances. So we sat together with those kids in the grass, just in front of the place where the dances took place. It was a nice...
sachara Says: It looked like the Pokot people forgot the time, while they were dancing. We really enjoyed their enthusiastic way of singing and dancing. Often one, two or three women danced by turns in front of the group. They jumped very high and were swinging their arms.After we visited...
Pokot women, welcoming their warriors
sachara Says: When the Pokot women saw, that their warriors came back safely from the fighting, they started to sing and dance very exuberantly, welcoming them back home.It was great to just in the middle of it. All the people were very enthusiastic. Some old women of the village first...
Pokot men, coming back from war
sachara Says: Just beside the compound we were invited to sit down in the grass waiting for what would happen. The dance performance started with the men coming back from war against their neighbours from Uganda, not far from here.It was a very fascinating view, the men approaching the...
Young Pokot woman, welcoming us
sachara Says: In the village the women welcomed us and we could have a look in some of the traditional huts. The Pokot women wear lovely necklaces and headdresses of beadwork, brass jewelry and large looped earrings.They told us, that some Pokot women after marriage also pierce their...
sachara Says: Sirikwa Safaris introduced us in a Pokot tribal homestead after the visit to the waterfalls. It's amazing to see how they exist in this dry valley, though there are ancient irrigation channels fed by the falls.The Pokot people are divided in the sedentary farmers or...
Walk to the falls and Pokot villages
sachara Says: At the Sirikwa Safaris/ Kaibos Farm we arranged a trip to the waterfalls in an area with Pokot villages. After a ride of 40 minutes in a pick-up we parked the car at a narrow track not far from a Pokot village.After a short walk I decided to stay near the Pokot villages and...
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North of Kitale you can camp in the lovely garden a former farmhouse Barnley family. You can camp, but also rent a permanent furnished tent or a room in the...
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Kitale is a regional town in the western highlands of Kenya. It;s a good base to visit Mount Elgon near the border with Uganda and the area north of Kitale with Pkot villages and the Saiwa Swamp...
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