Day 23: Today we visited a proper ranch called Lloldiga. The ranch in 40000 acres and has approximately 5000 cattle as well as camels and other wild life such as elephant, giraffe, rhino, lions, zebras, cheetahs and gazelles. Lance, the manager of the ranch, was a perfect host he showed us around and shared with us all the tricks of the trade or at least the most basic ones. He showed us the ranch dairy operation as well as some specimen of the cows that the ranch hosts. He also showed us his camel dairy operations. While visiting the camel milking process we were lucky enough to meet a German guy who has start a camel dairy business, apparently camel milk is much better the than cow milk and there is high demand in Kenya.
After touring the ranch all morning we were invited for lunch at the ranch guest house, which used to be the residence of the manager. The lodge is rented out to friends of the owners, the view from the ranch is magnificent and the lodge has a very colonial style. Apparently the Canadian high commissioner goes there for holiday. The place is perfect and it only costs 10000 Ksh per (150 $US) for 7 people sharing! While at the ranch, one can enjoying mountain biking, hiking and safaris with the added bonus of total solitude since there no tourists allowed at the ranch.Lance also gave us a brief history of land ownership in the region. Most of the land was giving as payment to British soldier during the Victorian time; subsequently this land was sold to local Kenyan who then sold it to international wealthy people. Therefore the common belief that the land is owned by colonialist is just a legend, but I guess there is so much hatreds towards white people that is very easy to blame current land owners for Kenya misfortune even though the current land owners have no fault.