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Pole to Pole
Day 88: Marsabit to Shaba
A boy called Tom, who remembers singing in the film, has come all the way from Eldoret University in the west of the country where he is a sociology student. We look at photos taken during the filming, while the bonily photogenic elders of the village debate how much it will cost for them to be filmed.This is a poor part of the country and the liveliness and eagerness of the children is moving. Henry, who is the sort of opportunist the place needs, tells me they are building a dormitory for children who have to come in from a long way. They have everything but the roof.
By the time I leave Lerata they have money for another roof.
As we drive away, a dust devil, a column of dust whipped up by the wind to a height of thirty or forty feet, snakes out of the bush and across our path. It seems an appropriate image for our visit to Lerata. A rush of hyperactive whites, a windfall and we're gone.
At four o'clock we are staring into the eyeless sockets of two massive water-buffalo skulls which mark the entrance to the Shaba National Reserve, 160 miles from Marsabit and not much more than fifty miles from the Equator.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Pole to Pole
- Day: 88
- Country/sea: Kenya
- Place: Lerata
- Book page no: 198
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RELATED LINKS
- Kenya
- Chapter 6: Africa
- Hemingway Adventure
- Amboseli National Park, Kenya (first day)
- Hemingway Adventure
- Amboseli National Park, Kenya (second day)
- Hemingway Adventure
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