27 August
Our last motel after returning from the Serengeti
Maasi cattle on the dry pains with the young man.
Lots of homes like these.
Football is very popular here
At the border coming into Kenya Brook and Rimmy with the local Maasi women selling jewellery
How about that for scaffolding
local
church, there were numerous churches empty all through Africa, lots of aid that
used to come to them has stopped as the congregations in other countries are no
longer there to support them.
The following photos are of our group together on the last night.
28 August
In Nairobi at the hotel the day before coming home.
28th Are in Perth, meeting Laurie and Molly for dinner in the hotel here, looking forward to hearing all the news from the family then tomorrow we are all looking forward to home.
What an amazing adventure, we have done about 12housand kilometres,8 countries seen so much are really tired but what a privilege to have witnessed others cultures that will not exist soon as the world is changing and you can see the effect it is having on the lives of these people, the young people want to become westernised, at the moment there is a thin veneer of westernization in the large cities but the villages are still as they were years ago but change will come to them also.
The amount of children is staggering but I have not seen anyone hungry they all look well nourished covered in red dust but happy and smiling, the young boys have pushbikes, the older boys have motorbikes which they use as taxis and keep polished, some agro from them when being photographed but on the whole most people were happy to talk to you.
The woman have a hard life, appear to have many children, do all the work, the men seem to be sitting around talking,
The deforestation is evident as the women
get wood every morning for the fires others are cutting it to make furniture,
they burn it to make charcoal and sell it on the side of the road or just sell
bundles of it, between them the elephants and the giraffes I am surprised a
tree still exists in
Everyone asks for a favourite and mine was the Serengeti we were with such neat people, Tony Karen and I, Thomas and Laura a Dutch couple who have similar interests to us, Brook 30 year old Aussy one of the guides and Rimmy A 26 year old German interpreter, they all had a great sense of humour and we had a laugh a minute, The animals were great and Danny our driver quiet at first he must had thought in was in with a bunch of nutters but by the end he was joining in and laughing to.
The general impression from the locals is they are afraid of the influx of Chinese who have undercut all the large contractors and are buying up business, the top tier is so corrupt it makes it easy for them to get in, minerals are what they are after and as the labour force get so little pay it is a great market for them..
I really enjoyed having Karen along to enjoy our adventure it was just like her being a kid at home again, a real pleasure to be with. Logan and the girls are living with us for a while, the kids here every second week, what a joy it is will be so sad when they move out, I remember Tony,s Mum not wanting us to go when we stayed with her after one of our adventures.
Thanks to Rob in
29 August
Laurie and Molly in Australia