Thursday, May 13, 2010

How God reshaped some places later...

In the beginning,God made the universe. It was a solid thing sidelined in one corner of the sea. Then God thought, ' it needs to be widespread and separate'. With that, he contracted other earth shaping processes- Tremors, volcanos, faulting, folding and the rest. The earths crust was cracked and it tectonically separated into the now continents!



Meanwhile in Baringo, folding, a geological process where the earth's strata bends and then sink took place millions of years and still takes place...



... it has made neighbours now villagers separated by horror valleys...





... and leaving others hanging



Reaching water points (and bathrooms), a young male descends for four hours, and an average one and half days for 60 year old female, stopovers at relatives included.
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In the same world, several hundred kilometers away in Chyulu, a different process reshaped the earth.It was volcanic with the most recent eruption occurring only 500 years ago. Some of its hills are still bare uncolonized rock and rills formed by melting away magma seen from far.



Picturing red hot, lava ash was thrown widespread; from Kiboko to Kibwezi to Mtito andei over 150 kilometers apart, where lava rock outcrop is now evident everywhere- a no license to go out barefoot.



Chyulu range stretches over 58 kilometers...






...they form series of cone hills, each characteristic with craters on peak...



...and forests occurring in the now very fertile craters on hill tops



The intensity of the eruption in chyulu formed real piles of elevation on a naturally lowland to an extent when you are uplands, it is so misty...



... and scorching dry when are down hill



The entire eye reaching surrounding of Chyulu has or had volcanic activities burning under. No wonder Kilimanjaro is its neighbor





This mountain's top seems so level, it gives me an ambition to take my football skills there!

Friday, May 7, 2010

This Forest and its history



A walk in Tarambas forest is surely cool...



... it is rich and at intervals cries a river...



... has rich history, and this guy claims his ancestor lived here!



His granny discovered this cave two centuries ago. It forms on the base of this rock (or cliff)...



... they dressed like this...



... and grazed their goats over theeere...



... later, their goats drink from here- the three hills River (Bemoi)...



... a century later in 1940,when religion arrived, and it was catholic, they believed and professed then chose Morop hill as their Easter pilgrimage site.
If you have never climbed this famous second highest point of Tugen hills, you have never been challenged by topography; neither have you!





Well, I am not always fond of beating my chest about issues but because this is important for your information, I have hiked Morop a record 50 times... and Mt. Kenya as well! (Right in photo, I was the leader as you can see... but do i say [write])


Cheers! Enjoy your present moment to the full, tomorrow has never been predictable!