Elangata Wuas - A Three Part Series

After three days at Nguruman, we packed up and went to our last camping spot (for now) at Elangata Wuas which is also in the rift valley, which is slightly more elevated than Nguguman. So,  although it was a sauna during the day, this AMAZING wind picked up every night to cool everything down. We spent quite a while [relatively: six days] at E-wuas so alot happened. As a result, I will be blogging in parts as not to write you a essay.

Part 1 – The Campsite

E-wuas campsite was pretty interesting because it also functions like a community center for the local Maasai people. There was a women’s co-op shop where the Maasai women in the surrounding area would sell their traditional beaded jewelry (you can guess what I got all of my friends!), a kitchen area and some huts/buildings for us to have our classes in. But the most exciting thing about this campsite was the TABLE that we had to eat food on, and to study on, instead of eating food in our laps or studying by headlamp in our tents .Who would have ever thought we would have been appreciative of a table? It’s the little things in life we all never think about man. So today, when your eating dinner, appreciate that table you have to comfortably set your food down, cuz a lot of ppl out here don’t even have that. 

The second great thing (other than the table) was a beautiful look out spot at our campsite at the top of a bunch of rocks where you could see really really far away, because its really flat here and the trees are really small and shrub like. This was also our cell-phone spot soooo to get reception, we had to stand ontop of a rock and wave our phone around. Most of us call home and then get them to call us back cuz its free incoming (SO I hope yall read that. Call me.) soooo there were like a few ppl up there at a time just standing with their arms in the air on top of a rock, just waiting to receive a phone call.. My friend Marie-anne waited HALF an HOUR like that  to get a call from her boyfriend, but was eventually successful.

This is how we get cell phone service

This is how we study

And this is the view while we do those things.. can't complain :)