Ol Donyo Wuas

The amazing Ol Donyo Wuas is the latest Lodge to take Sandstorm into their shop. If you're lucky enough to visit you will see us there. Ol Donyo Wuas is linked to Great Plains Conservation and you can find out more about their important work here.

Rhino Charge

Rhino Charge is a 20 year old Kenyan institution organised to raise funds for the Rhino Ark Charitable Trust and it takes place this weekend. Sandstorm has supported the event in the past, and this year the extremely persuasive Elodie Sampere, Head of Conservancy Marketing at Lewa has convinced us to sponsor her team Pinks in Charge. You can donate before (and after!) the event at JustGiving here and FirstGiving here.

We in turn managed to convince our friends at Scottish ad agency Newhaven Communications to sponsor them as well. Perhaps not the most tightly targeted piece of sponsorship in history but it's all in a very good cause, and it just goes to show how nice they are.

Below is a little about the event from their website, but follow the link and take a look for yourself.

The Rhino Charge is an off-road event in which competitors are required to visit 13 points scattered over approximately 100 square kms of rough terrain within a 10 hour period. Competitors are supplied with a 1:50,000 scale map of the venue, co-ordinates of the 13 Control Points and their Start position (at one of the Controls). Each competitor must plot the Control Points on the map and decide his/her route. Navigation is by compass/GPS and the winner is the competitor who visits all controls in the shortest distance (GPS measured). The event is organised to raise funds for the Rhino Ark Charitable Trust. Competitors are required to raise the minimum sponsorship set by the organising committee. Most however raise considerably more - the record to date being Kshs 9,393,552 in 2008 from Car No. 5 Alan McKittrick, Bruce Knight, Charlie Hewitt-Stubbs, John Trundell, S. McKittrick, winners of the prestigious David Schaeffer Trophy. Long-time supporters such as Mike and Sarah Higgins have raised a total of Kshs 39,604,399 over the last 20 years.

Karibu Fair

From the 5th - 7th June Joyce and Moshi will be representing Sandstorm Kenya at the Karibu Fair in Arusha, Tanzania. You can find out more at http://www.karibufair.com/ and if you're attending please pay us a visit. We'd love to see you. Moshi will take some pics and post them when he gets back.

SAMBURU

Young Samburu Girl


If you thought MASAI are the only color full people in Kenya,then your tour guide must have hiden a lot from you . The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists. Cattle, as well as sheep, goats and camels, are of utmost importance to the Samburu culture and way of life. The Samburu are extremely dependent on their animals for survival. Their diet consists mostly of milk and sometimes blood from their cows. The blood is collected by making a tiny nick in the jugular of the cow, and draining the blood into a cup. The wound is then quickly sealed with hot ash. Meat is only consumed on special occasions. The Samburu diet is also supplemented with roots, vegetables and tubers dug up and made into a soup.
There is also a game park in the area, Samburu National Reserve only 4x4 vehicles are motor able in these area
Young Samburu worriers with sandstorm bags

WATAMU

still at Kenyan coast here comes a strange town known as Watamu ,village essentially a Swahili (or Bajuni) fishing village that has grown into a small beach resort over the years.With traditional food coats, clean silent streets and beautiful clean beaches makes it another tourist spot. The village has several small supermarkets, grocers and the usual Kenyan style Dukas made from cooconut tress which makes the town more attractive
Traffic jam is always is always thing that you can't experience when you are in watamu



Tourist zone in watamu

Traditional fashion shows and dance in Watamu village

Malindi

malindi is small town situated about 120 km north of Mombasa,just little south of equator and tourism is a thriving business in malindi .Malindi really comes into its own when we are exhausted after working through out the year ,then it should be top of anyone list who visit kenyan coast

its fun to play football near the ocean waters ,list of things to do in malindi



from the distance you can see Vasco da Gamas Pillar, on the beach in the middle of Malinidi's long coastal front, is a monument to where Vasco da Gama first set foot in modern-day Kenya in 1498.
well after working hard through out the year this is the only place i will go to relax and celebrate my Christmas with my friends and family marine marine park