Mount Longanot

What a fun day! It was neat to see life outside of Nairobi! Wendy, Kim, Chris, Rebekka and I spent the day at Lake Naivasha and Mount Longanot. We left in the morning and drove a little over an hour. The view was beautiful, overlooking the Rift Valley. This first picture is overlooking the Rift Valley with Longanot in the background.


It was so interesting to see the villages and the people as we drove through. There are so many people trying to sell things alongside the road to make a living. There are also so many people who look like they have nothing to do, so they just watch cars pass by or sit in the middle of a field. Jobs are definately needed here for many Kenyans. It did make me think though, how as Americans we often make our lives so busy. We never take time just to sit and watch cars go by or sit in the middle of a field, thinking and praying. Often there would be cows or goats in the road in big herds and you had to stop and wait for them. Many times Massai men were with the herds.


We went to Lake Naivasha first. We saw hippos in the water as well as a ton of varieties of birds. We had a picnic at the lake, it was beautiful! We then drove to Mount Longanot. It was sunny at the lake but then the clouds started to come in and it rained the whole way up the volcano! It really wasn't too bad, since it would have been super hot without the rain!
This is a picture taken at Lake Naivasha of some of the surrounding mountains.
It took about an hour to get to the top. It was quite steep in most places and the ash was slippery in the rain, but it was a lot of fun!
Here's Rebekka at the top, overlooking the crater. It started pouring when we got to the top and it was SO cold! If you go all day, you can hike all the way around the rim of the crater. The highest point of that rim is what you see behind Rebekka but we didn't have that much time. The environment inside the crater is so lush and green, so different from the ash and dirt of the rest of the volcano. After a difficult journey down, (trying to keep ourselves from going too fast and falling down) we headed for home. We went to Java House for dinner since we were all too tired to cook dinner! What a fun day, admiring God's creation!