Timu

Timu is located on the far Eastern border of Uganda & Kenya in Kaabong. It is at about 6,500 feet elevation and receives much more rain than the area we are staying in a bit south of it at 5,200 feet. The vegetation gets greener and more bushy as you head that way - it was a beautiful, albeit bumpy 1 and a half hour journey there on Saturday. Amber & Terrill are building a house there so they can be closer to the Ik people. The Ik are a different tribe than the Karamajong and there are very few of them, some estimate only around a few thousand people. They are primarily agriculturalists & do not raise livestock, but are unfortunately caught in a geographic area between the Turkana of Kenya & the Dodoth Karamojong of Kaabong. Which means they are often vulnerable to the raiding of their villages even without owning livestock.

Some pictures from there:

This is the doorway in/out of their village!

Graineries

Amber on the way to the village

the new house & its proud owners (the Ik community consider this house to be 'theirs')

the views are incredible! Kenya is in the valley on the other side of these hills.


cute baby covered with cream for its chicken pox :(