One of my favourite things about TeakDoor is the travel tales, so I thought I would have a bash at it.
Four years ago my brother took his family to Kenya on safari and whilst there went off the beaten track and came across small villages with extreme poverty, when he came home he decided he had to do something and we started to look how we could help. with a little research my brother found an Irish priest who lived with a small hill tribe called Pokot. we got in touch with him and learned about what he has done and his plans for the future, we will cover all that through the course of the thread. we have been raising money since then with events and fundraisers in our local area.
Anyway myself my brother and 2 others made a trip last halloween to see what we were raising money for, I have to say its the most amazing experience of my life so far.
We flew into Nairobi and were met by David(the irish priest) who took us to our hotel, he told us to get a good nights sleep as it was a tough 8 hour drive in the morning to our destination and after a couple of nightcaps thats what we did.
We got up around 6.30 had breakfast and loaded up the truck and set on our merry way. It was a misty rainy morning very similar to a shitty morning at home in Ireland, i thought i had taken the wrong clothes with me for the trip but david assured us we didn't, Nairobi is 5000ft above sea level so the mornings are quite damp, we were to climb another 3000ft on our mornings trip. Nairobi is a lot like any other big city but as soon as you get outside the city it is a lot less modern.
these first group of pictures were taken from a moving pick-up so excuse the quality
the road was very good at this point and had little groups of buildings close to the road
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Its pretty green here and there were lots of cattle grazing and crops planted
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as we got further the markets started to fill up.
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The rain finally stopped, the clouds lifted and we began to see around us a bit better, quite the view, this is around 8000ft above sea level.
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when the rain stopped the dust started and we started our decent
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