When I first set foot in the MILGIS LUGGA, the huge dry river that divides the Ndoto and Lenkiyou mountain ranges, it captured me.. It was 1990… I was mesmerised by its wildness, its beauty, the danger, the grandness of this huge sandy lugga!! One of the dangers was the wirey, almost grey lanky lions, […]
Category Archives: Northern Kenya
Droughts are sent to try us and this one sure did.. In Northern Kenya basically it did not rain except the odd shower here and there for a whole year!.. thats a long time when its hot, windy and dry!.. Its an amazing thing, as the night before the rain came, 29th April we were […]
Elephants drinking at midday, the Magnificent Milgis lions roaring, and hunting dogs in our camp! Elephants generally like to drink, wallow, play and have fun at midday but our Northern Elephants have not had that pleasure for nearly 40 years… I’ve been in the area for 30 of those 40 years and a week ago from […]
These two beautiful girls, Lene Maria and Maria Annette sadly are not with us any more… but in their memory so many people in Samburu land have a smile!! so we thank the two families the Bergums and Ofstads for every thing they have done.. Lene Maria was so kind to Maria Annette in […]
It all started when Richard Gibson, a dairy farmer from Devon was chosen to be the star in the BBC programme ‘the toughest place to be a farmer ‘ .. He was brought out to this place called Mpagas where the Samburu and Rendille tribal people live.. Cattle are the favorite and most cherished animal […]
Thanks to Rachel in Australia who has kindly put this lovely colourful and fitting report together on the happenings in the ‘Milgis’ in the last year.. PLEASE TAKE TIME TO OPEN IT AND ENJOY!! If you want the map a bit clearer you just click on it and it goes live! https://indd.adobe.com/embed/6d034c2c-821c-44d6-a276-2c85dd72aff2?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true BUT again […]
because they have half killed themselves for the MILGIS TRUST and FOR ALL THAT WE BELIEVE IN!! All we can say is thank you all so sooooooooo very, very much!! You are all STARS of the Milgis!.. and we are very proud of you… There are several people that deserve a medal for busting them […]
THINKING and THANKING YOU SARAH!! We wish you all the luck in the world to finish this amazing challenge!! BUT the blog is all about this amazing girl Sarah bourghardt who raced in the hardest ski race in the world a few years back to raise awareness and money for the ‘Milgis’ and now […]
Its true elephants never forget!.. They know there is a remote mountain further north that used to be part of their ‘home’ and they have been probing the desert north/east of the Ndotos to see if theres a way back to Kulal.. .. We are all excited about it!..As this is at the crux of […]
Northern Kenya has been transformed… all that worry of ‘where were the rains’ has all been forgotten, and we have been enjoying the fruits of it!! This is what we have been walking through day in, day out… The transformation of these desert lands to this is unbelievable… and you can imagine the smell’s… just […]
