August 21 Tuesday
The Market Place at Lorengalup
TBI is surrounded by a nomadic group of people who live in huts and are herders and gatherers, they have flocks of goats, sheep and camels. They live in different villages and today we went to a larger village called Lorengalup to visit their marketplace. It took about an hour to get there in the passenger truck.
It was a small market but I liked it much better than the shops at Lodwar, the place felt a little cleaner and the people there were more friendly.
After the market visit we stopped at the Kaikol Village to finish installing the solar lights at the school, and I had a chance to look more closely at one of the huts. It may have been an abandoned one, I was fascinated with how they are made. They are woven from palm tree fronds and are quite cool inside. The framework is made of branches tied together. I was told that the women are the ones that build these huts. And the men? They are the herders and like to take naps under the trees.
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