Ngong Hills

Ngong Hills is located in Ngong town. This is close to where Huruma Children's Home is. The hills are very beautiful and they make a great hike. On Wednesday Rich and I were able to go up there and hike up one of the big hills and then have a picnic lunch. It was really great to go out together and be able to appreciate what God has created. It was really windy up there but we still were able to enjoy ourselves. When you get up to the hills you can look to the right and the left. On the right it was very dry and flat, it looked a lot like Arizona. When you look to the left it is very green, with a lot of trees and smaller hills, which looked like Tennessee. Rich and I both commented on the contrast between the two places.

Rich...
Just to give you guys an idea of how high the elevation is, I am told that we are just over 6,000 ft. in elevation in the valley of Ngong/Karen. We had to go up at least another 1000 to 2000 ft. to the top of the hills, so we were looking at somewhere close to 8,000 ft. in elevation. Most of you know that I am a long distance runner and have done three marathons, but we were so high up that I was getting out of breath just walking! We were incredibly isolated up there and yet while we were up there, we saw two seperate runners running the hills. No wonder they smoke us Americans in our marathons in the U.S.!! I was doing good just to catch my breath walking and they're long-distance running up there!