The Milgis Trust

Category: Milgis lugga, Samburu, elephants | Date: Sep 23 2008 | By: milgistrust

Finally back from our so called holiday with our Spanish friends!! We’re exhausted!! Masai Mara, Baringo, Bogoria, Solio, Aberdares,and Kiwayu at the coast…It was great to be a tourist in my own country… In fact we didn’t see any others… Except a man who told us he had seen some pandas in the Bamboo in the Aberdares!! I have one very amusing memory in my head of our Samburu warrior arriving at Lake Baringo, by plane from the Mara, and the Njemps [ a small maa speaking tribe] man who looks after the aeroplanes being absolutely amazed to see a warrior, and taking his mobile phone out of his pocket and taking a photo of him… How times have changed in the last twenty years..

On Sunday we called in to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to check on ‘Parsaloi’.. The Baby Elephant rescued from a well in the Milgis Lugga, literally hours before the Lugga came down in full flood… He is very big for a month old baby Elephant… I think he is going to turn out to be the size of elephant that people remember in the old days from the Milgis…Lets hope!! He doesn’t stop for a minute, hes very very busy, and always playing… We also saw how big our little matriarch ‘Lesanju’ is now… Below is a picture of her bathing in front of all the guests!! It also shows how much of her ear she lost after the Samburu children had finished, marking their elephant??… Shame.. she’s lost almost half her ear.. and it is so important for their cooling…The story of her rescue is on our Milgis Trust website under 2006 news…