Hero's turn at blogging: Talek is a small, dusty town that feels like it is in the middle of nowhere... yet it lies on the border of one of Kenya's (and perhaps Africa's) most amazing national parks - the Masai Mara. The town itself looks like something out of an old country and western movie, except that the cowboys are in fact Masai warriors (wearing their vivid red Masai blankets tied on one shoulder, rather than plaid shirts and chaps) and the weapons of choice are spears or bows and arrows, rather than pistols... oh, and all the horses here are stripey ;-) There are two rows of shops in the town which border a very dry, dusty expanse (the town square?) which is mostly inhabited by the local chickens, goats and dogs, who spend their
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