Nakuru

I tried to post this short little blog and photo album exactly two weeks ago. I had everything written and all the photos uploaded (which took about 2 hours), and all I had to do was hit “post”, but right then the internet conked out. After wrestling with it for another 30 minutes, I figured, oh well, I’ll just post it in the morning. Well… it turns out that that night was the start of the Great Internet Outage. So I’m posting it now…

What is now three thursdays ago, we took a trip to the town of Nakuru, which is about a 150 km drive to the west from Nyeri. Nakuru is located in the Great Rift Valley, which runs from Mozambique in southern Africa all the way up to Syria in southwest Asia. We literally got to look out over the valley from its edge, about 1500 feet above the valley floor (see pictures, link below). Aside from that, we enjoyed a long car ride with Eunice, the talkative and very bright manager here at Tumaini (who is 57 years old and looks 40), visited Lake Nakuru National Park, where there are buffalo, monkeys, and thousands of flamingos (see picture), played jump rope with a bunch of kids in the middle of a little neighborhood street (see pictures), and stopped at a roadside market to buy potatoes.

Here is a small photo album of the trip.

Nakuru and Rift Valley