Joni Sledge

Planting a Tree for World Environment Day in East Africa

            <br />It was World Environment Day and what better way to celebrate than head out to a sacred forest along the south coast of Kenya and plant an indigenous tree or two. We were visiting Kwale on an Africa Overland Safari Adventure Tour. We were picked up in Diani on a huge safari truck and driven about 10km down the road to a very small village on the edge of an ancient Kaya or Sacred Forest. As soon as we arrived we were greeted and after a quick coffee we set off into the forest with some of the Tribal