Workers at Tea Plantation in Tukuyu, Kenya

Stayed the night in the highlands at Tukuyu. Our camp was in the compound of a hotel and the manager offered us rooms for two at $15. It was cold at this altitude so stayed in the hotel, it was a new hotel and we were the only guests. Tuyuyu is an area of tea and banana plantations and at harvest time buyers stayed in the hotel. Adjacent to the hotel there was a large celebration going on, perhaps a Kenyan version of a country fair, with lots of drums and loud singing. Several of us went to check it out. They were selling home brew out of buckets and even in the late afternoon it was a rowdy and noisy crowd. At midnight in was much louder and I was glad to be in the hotel. The old Africa explorers would describe the drums, the drums going on all night and always getting louder now we knew what they meant. In the morning there were a lot of passed out drunks even in the hotel lobby.