Category Archives: Walking

A family escapade!!.. Lenkiyou.. ‘the cows dewlap’

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I dont know of many places on our earth that one could wake up with a view like this !  along with peace, quiet.. just the birds singing.. D4 and Uni enjoying the most incredible view of their life time!.. The Ndoto mountains, at dawn, with the Milgis lugga winding its way below.. taken from […]

Mt Nyiru this most beeeaautiful Mountain..

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Mt Nyiru .. The holy mountain for all maa speaking peoples.. The Samburu, the Maasai and the Njemps… It is the home of the great man who prophesizes whats coming, when the rains are going to be good, and security issues, and much more!  Also the orders, for all maa ceremonies come from there and […]

2018 greats and HUGE THANKS ALWAYS!!

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2018 a year with wonderful sun rises, moon and moon eclipses, an amazing line of planets Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars all in the sky at once in a perfect line, and always the exquisite stars!!! Stars in the sky and OUR supporters!! THANK YOU ALL!!   This year started so badly with an awfal drought […]

Adventure and thanks!!!

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Sometimes being remote has its challenges and in this last year we have lost alot of sleep because we’ve had a string of Elephants limping badly, or very poorly for various reasons, some gun shot wounds, but mainly a disease the Samburu call ‘Lokuchum’ and sadly most of the time we have not been able […]

Where to start… maybe.. news of rain!

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All animals people and plants are ‘dancing with joy’ up our way.. The rains finally came!! Its been tough times in Northern Kenya and every one has been holding their breath for some rain.. We have been so occupied with going on safari and enjoying the amazing final lmuget ceremonies for the warriors that not […]

Natures way.. Cruel is kind! but RAIN finally!!

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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 […]

A Milgis ‘medal for these GOOD People!!

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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 […]

Sarah is doing it again for ‘US’!! asheOling!!.. Thank you..

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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 […]

MAGIC!!

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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 […]