Saturday, September 8, 2012

This is one of the many termite mounds you see along the sides of the roads.  Most of the people in Kenya build their houses out of clay, mud or metal because the termites will eat your house if it's made from wood.
There are nests hanging from the branches of many trees in Kenya.
We climbed a volcano called Oloonogot (Longonot) near Naivasha.  It is a pretty steep climb to the rim and then we hiked around the rim and back down.  The view was spectacular.  There were a few steam spouts coming from the inside  walls of the volcano.  The interior is a dense forest where many baboons live.  From start to finish, it took us about five hours.  The first time our guide climbed it, it took him 2 hours and 20 minutes.  He was 16 years old and there was a prize offered of 2000 shillings ($20) and a large Coke.  He won.
This is looking down into the volcano from the rim.
There was a small crater not far away.
Lee at the summit.
Longonot means many mountains and that's exactly what we saw.  It was beautiful.

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