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Lovely Photo!

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I love it...just ordinary occurances that look lavish! great pic!

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Oh C'mon you "Canadian" LOL - 'Menengai' is home made? Nice pic though.

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hi magaidi

glad you asked :)
it looked and smelt like the old sunlight soap (when it used to smell of soap and not detergent as it does nowadays). in school we once made soap like this as a project - coconut oil+vegetable fat+cold water - blended and then boiled with a bit of glycerine - on cooling it became soap (you could have used animal fat too, but i went to a vegetarian school). the way the soap had been cut and the menengai stamp put on it, it looked like someone's backyard soap manafacture operation..!

Ashok

Great!

I like it! So goats are fairly cheaper than T-Shirts. I smell like Kebab!

LOL @ Canadian

Which brand of European are you, then? Great story sirji.

C

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What were you doing in Lomut? Seriously...

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i really love it.....real life's fotos....catching the heart....well done

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I love this photo - good one

Travelling Western Pokot

I am considering travelling to West Pokot too, heard it was quite risky though, especially these days - lately there have been many clashes in the area between the Pokot, the Turkana, Samburu etc. When were you there, how were you travelling, how were you received by the people and is the security issue as severe as reported?
Would really be interested to get your feedback - thanks in advance!!

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Hi Karin:

I was going to write about it soon.
It may not be as risky as everyone tells you. West Pokot by itself is quite safe (and I find nairobi unsafe). I even moved around at night.
There are plenty of visible guns around, which can be a bit disconcerting.

The tricky areas are the parts bordering west-pokot - marakwet, west-pokot-turkana as thats where most of the clashes take place. It depends on your luck there, whether you run into trouble or not...

I was there a couple of months back.
West pokot doesnt get raided all that much because generally they are the strong armed aggressors against the other tribes...:)

The people are quite friendly, none of the usual nonsense that you get as a foriegner in other parts of Kenya.

You can get a bus from Kitale (there is an Eldoret Express going to Lodwar)..and a few matatus from Makutano (though these are generally *pretty* packed)....and if you are lucky you can sometimes hitch a ride from Kitale or Kapenguria.

Ashok

high price for the goats!

hey very nice pic and has alot to be admired and if keenly looked at one could learn some things thought never to exist.i couldnt agree on the price for the goats though.in kenya we have the buying price and then the 'last' price.if not aware you can be sold something quadruple the price.again goats go for 500bob in major towns...not in places like lomut.

Lomut the cheap market

congrats, the pic is lovly. av been in Lomut once and the place is great and natural.the guys here r so accomodative,hospitable and didn't encounter any rifts.the meandering of the road and the scene of the hills was a nice experience.lets be innovative like this dude in the pic.any person wishing to venture into goat business, Lomut is the place to visit.

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I was very excited to check out the pic about my people the pokots, (the barber shop) kinda reminded me of home. I love being a pokot woman, i dont think i would trade it for anytribe. I think what am trying to say is, home i always best no matter how it looks. I hope you enjoyed your stay in our land, the pokot land. We are actually very friendly, quite the opposite of what the media portrays, but one thing is that if you harm one pokot, its like you have disturbed a swan of bees by striking only one. The pokots are very protective of each other. I hope you enjoy your stay there.

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Ngonyi kipr picha pipo kaw? Andan atong'ran kutungtanga arelan Muina?

Thats a bomb ass photo dawg! Lumut is a nice place, I went there for christmas (it was market day on cristmas) and felt like I was back in the 50's

Mistry of the Pokots

Pokot people have been Potrayed in a negative context, but visiting areas like lomut you find out they are very freindly. by the way are the pokot truley kalenjins? They seem to stay isolated from the other kalenjins. Also i understand that when they speak the other kalenjin seem not to understand them very well! Anybody with an answer for this mistry

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I just returned from 10 days in pokot and it was incredible. Lomut market is awesome and i got myself a pair of those shoes made out of old tyres, brill. I wouldnt say it was unsafe, i heard a lot about clashes between the pokot and the turkana but had no troble while i wa out there. A beautiful and facinating part of the world

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I've spent 70% of my time in Pokot over the past 3 years building schools/churchs/clinics etc. Never a minutes problem with the locals. It's Nairobi which isn't safe.

whiskey

Just back from two nights in the village project, lovely people and lovely scenery, but roads very rough, and someone pinched my bottle of irish whiskey!

whiskey

just to clarify, my irish whiskey disappeared on my travels en route to the project vilage, not at the village itself, everyone there was delightful.

Lomut and PoViLo

I was in Lomut twice. It's really a lovely place, specially the market on Saturdays. To stay at night I prefered the hosts and to sleep in the guesthouses of PoViLo Pokot Village Lomut, about 2 km east.

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I am a Kalenjin, particularly Kipsigis. It is the largest subtribe among the Kalenjins.

I have worked with an NGO in North Rift of which pokot Land is part. I agree totally that these people are exceptionally peaceful not unless you are around the borders of Marakwet and Turkana. In fact, nowadays, Pokots have swore not to raid Marakwets- was there recently.

These people are Kalenjins. Just like the Sengwer, the Pokots are rarely known by other Kalenjins. In fact if u ask a Kipsigis about Sengwer, they tell u they have never heard of such.

Pokot used to be called SUK and Pokot is a name given to this people just recently. It is a Kalenjin word meaning "belonging to the house" I bet it was given by other Kalenjins to mean "These people belong to our house"

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Pokot used to be called SUK and Pokot is a name given to this people just recently. It is a Kalenjin word meaning "belonging to the house" I bet it was given by other Kalenjins to mean "These people belong to our house"

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I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog

atleast be human to sengwer

to our brothers the pokots and marakwets,
you know the problems that are affecting the sengwer. just imagine cattle raiding, nothing to claim of thier own be it land or jobs, politics.... 'we are just in this world under the mercy of our enemies'
If you cant help, help by sympathising..coz one day we shall remember not the suffering from our enemies but the silence of our friends

Awesome Article

I must visit Lomut, West Pokot, Kenya very soon.

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