Category: people

Kenya

Alice is a fantastic woman lots of fun and she tried to teach me Swahili and Kukuyu. I am afraid I stuck to Swahili but I learnt quite a lot in a short time. I loved the language excuse spelling but akuna matata= no problem! Alice is very religious and goes to church for the […]

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Hope House Orphanage Nairobi

  Ros runs a Baby Orphanage in Nairobi and has a fabulous system of “adopting a Cot”. As she tries to have the babies adopted there is no point in you supporting a baby so she set up a system that you adopt a cot and she writes to you telling you who is in […]

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Himba people

I loved the Himba village and found the fact that the Herero people who are related to them and wear full Victorian dress an unbelievable contrast! The men wash with water and wear western clothes but the women are bare-chested and wear an ochre paste which makes them very orange/ brown but protects them from […]

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Namibia

We saw the lions feeding and the lioness took a liking to Jeff which was quite startling! She charged the fence (hide) which we were behind!! We felt it appropriate to have gin and tonic in the sunset to calm his nerves in the thatched lodge house! We also found a local bar El Cubano […]

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