Another riding landscape

A few times a year, the owner of a farm outside of Nairobi invites local riders to come and school over a cross-country course that runs through his property. It's in one of my favorite parts of the area around the city, Tigoni, which is mostly tea plantations.

This farm also produces organic lettuce, arugula, and herbs.

Tigoni is often damp and cool when the rest of the area is dry, and there is a lushness about the landscape that is very far from what most of us imagine when we think of Africa and Kenya. What will often remind you that you are NOT in, say, Virginia, is the sound of colobus monkeys commenting on your passage.