Sunday we had a group excursion to Magadi Lake, Olorgesaillie, and Olepolos. Lake Magadi is this salt lake, in I think the bizarre-est little industrial town I have ever seen! (The salt factory there uses the salt from the lake, and is essentially the source of income in the town). There is no grass or dirt anywhere; the ground is entirely covered in these little white stones, and it was a cloudy-ish day to begin with, so everything was white. There were donkeys everywhere and although everything in their tiny little grocery store looked dusty enough to make you believe nothing had been touched in about fifty years, outside everything was incredibly clean (unlike Nairobi!) and the apartment buildings all looked really new. Then at the actual lake, which was incredibly beautiful, there were tons and tons of flamingos everywhere.

Olorgesaillie was this pre-historic site where they had tons of old Acheulian hand-axes still in the site that the were excavated and a humerous bone of an ancestor of an elephant. I'm not a huge palentology fan, but the site itself was incredibly beautiful. And there was a pre-human skull on display that was 2.4 million years old, which was pretty cool.

Finally, on the way back, we stopped at this restaurant (I guess you would call it) called Olepolos. It's a very authentic nyama choma place (Kenyan roasted meet), where you literally see goats walking around when you walk in, and then see them cooking them for you on their grills. It took forever for them to cook our food, but it was good, and the view there was phenomenal too!


I posted some pictures form Sunday on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/denisemoriba/LakeMagadiAndOlorgesaillieOlepolos