Photos from the Great Rift Valley
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Feb 26 2009 | By: baraza
Folks, its Paula again.
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These are some of my photos from at Lake Baringo during a ten day ecology field trip through the Great Rift Valley with Princeton University Undergraduates.
Lake Baringo is one of the few fresh water lakes in the Great Rift Valley. It is a spectacular lake surrounded by the towering escarpments and cliffs of the Great Rift Valley. It’s an important bird area with over 400 bird species recorded there. We saw 45 in one morning!
Il Chamus fisherman on Lake Baringo in a boat (or is it a raft?) that has been used unmodified for thousands of years. This is one of a handful of tribes in the world that still use this form of transport. Related to the Masai, the Il Chamus have broken a sacred taboo by eating fish! The Masai don’t touch them!
African Fish Eagle, looks like the American Bald Eagle doesn’t it?
Another spectacular bird, the Goliath Heron.
Hippos!!!
Il Chamus lady (also known as the Njemps) - is this where body piercing started?
What a good reason to get up at 6.30 am!
Watch this space for more from the alkaline lakes of Bogoria, forests and more wild people, places and animals.
Hope you enjoyed them!
Tags: fishermen, Great Rift Valley, il Chamus, Kenya, Lake Baringo, Njemps, wildlifedirect
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