![]() I have managed to climb seven mountain's so far and am enjoying it even though my legs get incapacitated for some days after the hike. I am progressing well with my hiking adventure. Let's Climb Mt Ole Satima - 20.4 Kilometers We have come from far, and we are going far. This post is about my first fall and not the second or the third when I hung in the air like a bat before hitting the ground. I was back the next day, wiser to step on thick branches. I swore not to climb trees again, lakini si, you know, big brothers. Are you asking about Xray? What x-ray? Heal from home was the order of the day. I still believe one side of my face has a dent due to that fall. In a second, I was dancing to the kungulu kwangala song. Like the norm, I and my long dress and bare feet did the best tact, hanging from one branch with one hand and attempting to pick the fruits with the other from the next branch. The tree must have decided to teach me a lesson that day for kuizoea. And this is where my first fall happened. Thirdly, for sampling wild fruits like matoo and Njigara (I don't know their English names). And often during the mango season, during our breakfast and lunch, the dining table was only mangoes. Hapana, it was for chasing the birds so determined to finish our millet before we harvested. And please not the tour bird watching to identify and name 100 species. Our tasks were challenging firstly, trees were ideal for bird watching. The main reason for learning this skill was for survival. While at it singing traditional folk songs. I knew the art of swinging to the other tree using connecting branches. ![]() I was a monkey, a swift monkey, a cheeky monkey, yaani katumbili ka smooth I could navigate trees such that I did not need to climb down from one to the other. When your elder is a brother, and your elder relatives are primarily male, you become a pseudo bro. If you have never fallen from a tree aki, you don't know the village definition of the word speed.Īllow me to take you to rwamuringa village back in Mbeere, where my hobbies included tree climbing and swinging. ![]()
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