Jambo bwana africa1/6/2024 ![]() Papaya and Coconut and Banana grow in abundance, and with the rain we experience here we can see why the crops grow so well. It’s very different from Tsavo, it’s in the village which makes it easy to meet up with locals to play rain lashed football matches with. Not far from there is Muhaka, our second main camp. We travel down to the South coast and spend a view days in Diani Beach, a tourist Paradise where the Indian Ocean washes up on a white sand beach fringed by coconut palms. Best of all though are two young male Lions sat under a shady tree watching the herbivores as they throng around the watering holes, more vital than ever in this drought ridden land. We saw enormous numbers of Elephants and Giraffe, herds of Zebra and Buffalo and Impala, not to mention Baboons, Vervet Monkey, Warthogs and Gazelle. Tsavo wouldn’t be Tsavo without a safari and we are blessed with a good one. We hike in the Marungu Hills, do a morning of Goat deworming in the community, work on construction projects at the local Primary School and spend an afternoon with the local Women’s Group making beadwork bracelets and paper from Elephant poo. It is the Africa of imagination, the earth is brick red, Acacia dot the scrub, Goats roam free and primary school kids in smart uniforms wave manically whenever we pass. Tsavo is still a real jewel in the crown though. Having previously concentrated on the Tsavo area of Kenya this lengthier expedition was a real opportunity to explore a much greater part of the country and to experience the regional diversity in terms of culture and landscape. Kenya 2022 was an epic trip with a motivated, mature and hard working team and it was wonderful to be reunited with friends in country whom I hadn’t seen for over three years. It has been three Covid ravaged years since we have been on a Summer expedition and it feels good to be back. I can see the flickering tongues of flame of the campfire and somewhere in the distance I can hear the anthem of all Camps international’s East African volunteers “Jambo, Jambo, Bwana”. I am sat perched on a rock under a star spangled African sky, the air is cool now the sun has dropped behind the distant range of hills separated by an acacia studded red earth plain. ![]() ![]() Expedition Leader – Kenya 2022 “Somewhere in the distance I can hear the anthem of all Camps International’s East African travellers, “Jambo, Jambo, Bwana”. ![]()
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