well deserved break

monade — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:59:34 +0000

After 5 exciting days at the countryside of Nyanza we now have the time to review the results. We sat down at the swimming pool of Kisumu Hotel to listen to all of the recordings Sven did and to arrange and edit all of the foto and film material. That’s a nice
way of working!

At three o’clock we took a well deserved break and decided to take a closer look at Lake Victoria, which is only a few minutes away from the Kisumu Hotel where we are staying. In front of the hotel you can see several men with bicycles hanging around. We asked two of them to take us to the lake. This was our first ride on a bicycle taxi, which is a common transportation vehicle in Kisumu. You can see women with heavy shopping bags or men coming back from work on the bycicle racks. The drivers pedal like mad getting them up the hill, for only 20 shilling (which is about 20 Cents).
So we arrived at Kiboko Beach and paid of course much more just to overcome our quiter dash of exploitation. The Lake Victoria area is a wonderful place to relax. We sat down under a huge palm and ordered two of these delicious Kenyan mango juices.
Later on we met some children playing there. They were singing wonderful children’s songs and of course Sven asked them if he could record their singing. Instead of paying a fee we offered sweets which were well received by these four cute children.
Listen to the song a 5 years old girl from Kisumu sang to us:

http://barabara.fm/videoblog/music/15-3-5_years_old-Girl.mp3 ^{Children’s song}

BaraBara.fm [v.3] - A Journey into the Sound of Kenya » lake victoria

well deserved break