Sunday market at Chaka

This town is at the turn off for Mountain Lodge and is on the road to Nanyuki. Sunday is a big market day here. On the way up, we saw trucks carrying leaves of the ( an intoxicant) to the airport to be flown to Somalia. It is big business there. The planes fly out once a day.

Mountain Lodge

November 23rd 2008
Vicki and I were treated to a night at Mountain Lodge, on the flanks of Mt Kenya, as a thank you from the school to Vicki for all her hard work here. We were driven up to the Lodge by an employee of the school on Saturday afternoon. We drove on a beautifully paved road, after we turned off at the village of Chaka. I t is well paved since the president has a vacation home on the road! It was ... read more

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Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 196... ... read more

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