Back to Africa

Valerie had a work trip recently, which took her to Kenya and Uganda for three weeks.  Most of it involved long hours of meetings, workshops, and fascinating site visits to potato and sweetpotato projects near Kampala and Entebbe, Uganda, western Kenya, and the Taita Hills of southern Kenya.
Though there was little time off, she did get a chance to visit a few national parks to admire the amazing wildlife of that part of the world.

 Mosquito netting in all the bedrooms, not to be taken lightly.

 Rift Valley in Kenya

 Grooming baboons in Lake Nakuru Nat'l Park

 Dancing zebra with pink pelicans, Lake Nakuru

 Spotted hyena, Lake Nakuru

 Water buffalo couple, Lake Nakuru

 Stork, Lake Nakuru

 Leopard, Lake Nakuru

 Mama and baby white rhinos

 Lion

 Zebra and various storks

 Rock hyrax

 Looking down on Lake Nakuru from baboon overlook

 lizard

 wart hog

 Secretary bird

 Wart hog covered in white mud (the white is from the high levels of salt in the soil)

 White rhino

 Mother and baby zebra

 Water buck

 Impala

 Sykes monkey

 Colobus monkey

 Taita Hills in southern Kenya

 Potato farmer and extension workers, Taita Hills

 Shop built from potato cultivation profits

 Meeting with members of a farmers group in their beautiful potato field in the Taita Hills

Salt Lick Lodge  where we stayed after a long field day. It's located in a nature conservancy and up on stilts so you can watch the animals come to the water and salt lick.

 Visiting Tsavo West Nat'l Park on Sunday with colleagues

 These are the colors of Kenya

 Lizard, Tsavo Park

 Note the baby giraffe on the bottom left

 Typical round rural houses in western Kenya

Program recipient in front of here newly planted orange-fleshed sweetpotato field