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Written by Randall Wood
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
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 Kenya ni Yetu ("Kenya is our country"): We saw these bumper stickers everywhere, and I saw it at least once painted on the side of a roadside shop. Kenyans clearly have a great love for their nation and with pride comes the essential drive to improve, something many nations wallowing in misery could clearly stand to gain. We enjoyed Kenya as well. Here's why.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 December 2007 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007 |
 Day breaks over the Samburu National Park in an auburn glow that seeps up over the mountain tops, a broad lumpy landscape the colors of fire. Shortly after we begin the temperature soars and the grass crackles in the dry equatorial sunlight. The dry grasslands are punctuated only by the occasional green spot of shrubbery under which we find the game resting or nibbling on the softer leaves. The tiny dik-dik are the most sensitive to our presence, scampering away on tiny legs, almost rabbit-like. By mid-morning we have come across a group of female lions hunting. Their silence and their rippling muscles are terrifying; they pad by us silently, acutely aware of our presence but intensely uninterested. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 18 August 2007 )
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Written by Randall Wood
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007 |
We reach the Masai Mara just before nightfall, a phenomenal backdrop for its exotic and amazing denizens. The color of the grass is fluid as the sun slides from one horizon overhead to the other, slipping through myriad shades of yellow, green, and gold. The horizons are broad and open, and the sky overhead is immense. From our vehicle we can see for kilometers and yet we only perceive a fraction of the life that surrounds us. Still, it is there: velvet monkeys in the treetops, gorgeous sapphire-colored birds flitting from the branches, gazelles bounding across the hillsides. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 August 2007 )
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