September 26th 2010
Today was the last day we had staying in the wonderful huts.
The river has risen quite a bit since we have been here, and many people have been unable to leave the town for a few days now, because the roads that lead out of the town are flooded, and no bridges!
Most people are here on vacation anyway, so it’s more of a blessing to be stuck in a beautiful area I suppose!
Luckily, Rico and I don’t have a car, so we were less stuck than others. Instead, we pulled on our backpacks and walked to the nearest boat, which could take us across the flooded road.
There was a villager operating the round weaved boat, he charged us something like 30 cents to cross.
One of Bobbi’s drivers was going to pick us up on the other side of the road, to bring us back to the resort.
When we got to the resort, there were so many monkeys!
I think the locals find it fascinating how interested I am in the monkeys--because to the locals, the monkeys are just pests and nuisances.
I suddenly got the idea that it would be really cool to feed one. I think I spent 15 minutes sitting patiently with some leaves that I noticed them eating to see if they would come. They definitely stared at me for a while. And the workers at the eco-resort were thoroughly amused with this crazy foreign girl trying to feed the monkeys.
Maybe I should have been more persistent, but it seemed pretty hopeless.
These monkeys were just not interested.
Fail.
That evening we spoke to Bobbi about one of his lands. His passion is buying areas of land that are really important corridors for wild animal migrations. So it’s really cool talking to him and learning about, how he actually started off with only the idea. No resources nothing, and when he first started telling people what he wanted to achieve or do, nobody really thought it could be possible. But now, he has many properties and working on buying a huge area of land in Kenya for the wild animals! Somehow he manifested exactly what he needed, just by believing.
Pretty cool.
Today was the last day we had staying in the wonderful huts.
The river has risen quite a bit since we have been here, and many people have been unable to leave the town for a few days now, because the roads that lead out of the town are flooded, and no bridges!
Most people are here on vacation anyway, so it’s more of a blessing to be stuck in a beautiful area I suppose!
Luckily, Rico and I don’t have a car, so we were less stuck than others. Instead, we pulled on our backpacks and walked to the nearest boat, which could take us across the flooded road.
There was a villager operating the round weaved boat, he charged us something like 30 cents to cross.
One of Bobbi’s drivers was going to pick us up on the other side of the road, to bring us back to the resort.
When we got to the resort, there were so many monkeys!
I think the locals find it fascinating how interested I am in the monkeys--because to the locals, the monkeys are just pests and nuisances.
I suddenly got the idea that it would be really cool to feed one. I think I spent 15 minutes sitting patiently with some leaves that I noticed them eating to see if they would come. They definitely stared at me for a while. And the workers at the eco-resort were thoroughly amused with this crazy foreign girl trying to feed the monkeys.
Maybe I should have been more persistent, but it seemed pretty hopeless.
These monkeys were just not interested.
Fail.
That evening we spoke to Bobbi about one of his lands. His passion is buying areas of land that are really important corridors for wild animal migrations. So it’s really cool talking to him and learning about, how he actually started off with only the idea. No resources nothing, and when he first started telling people what he wanted to achieve or do, nobody really thought it could be possible. But now, he has many properties and working on buying a huge area of land in Kenya for the wild animals! Somehow he manifested exactly what he needed, just by believing.
Pretty cool.
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