Kenya. Camp 2: Tsavo

Tsavo is RED. Everything is red and glowing as soon as you swing open the banda door in the mornings.  The sand is red and so is the sky, and now so are our clothes and skin.

 

We are now based in the middle of nowhere about an hour and a half's drive from Voi Town - which is pretty much skankville, but quite hilarious! with 'jambo jambo' man shouting how he's clean and my face is shiney - brilliant  But where we are is wonderful!  One night, our roommate Dave, came into our room whispering around about an elephant.  We assumed he was just pissed but he piggy-backed me along and led us to an elephant about 2 metres from the fence!! so amazing!

One evening we watched the African sunset, definetly somthing for everyones bucket list, AMAZING!

For project work, we dug trenches to help maintain the water holes for the wildlife, we dug a shit-pit for the school in order to build a boys toilet, built the foundations for a new classroom, plastered a classroom already built by other volunteers and did some 'wildlife monitoring'.  Safe to say there was a lot of ho'ing involved.

 We also learnt to start fires with Masai Mara when we went to visit there town which we later put into practice on our 'bush adventure day' during which we built dens, in case we got stuck in the bush with a hungry lion, as well as firing bow and arrows built fires out of sticks.

Den Building ^

 

 

The most inspiring part of our trip so far was visiting Imani, the womans group in Voi town, put together to help locals with HIV/Aids, as well as orphans and other in need. The leader that spoke to us was so immensely grateful for our help and had the best stories to tell. We helped them plant crops to fun their group, as well as making bracelets; another form of income.

 

Writing this from Bali (post coming soon!!) we are lovesick for Kenya already, the locals, animals and the friends we made, made it probably the best month of our lives so far!

You have to go to Tsavo, even if it's just for the stars...

Updates soon, Meg and Jod xxxxxxx