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BUSHNOTE: TURKANALAND

BUSHNOTE: TURKANALAND

Author: Kingley Holgate
Date: 2016-12-02
To our left is the green of the Omo delta and to our right the jagged western wall of the Great Rift. Down the road and there's some excitement. People are agitated. Seems there has been another cattle raid and a Turkana herdsman has been shot dead. 'They are barbarians, those people from Ethiopia. Here in Kenya we are civilized and know the rules,' says a Kenyan guy who we tow out of the soft sand. (Yes! They're in a Land Cruiser. !! ) And so we head south through Turkanaland and by late afternoon are preparing to camp amongst the palms trees opposite Central Island on the shoreline of the worlds largest desert lake first named Rudolf by Count Teleki and now aptly called Turkana. But the jumping sand fleas soon change our mind and by nightfall were in a dry riverbed and soon collecting firewood for yet another evening under the stars. Lumbaye Lenguru knocks up a damn good goat stew and Ross has a brush with a snake that got to his bedroll before him. Up early next morning we do malaria prevention, Mashozi's Rite to Sight and Lifestraws for the Turkana. We're all feeling the pace a bit but as always our Spirits are High. It's all about the Zen of Travel, isn't it Lodwar capital of Turkanaland here we come.