Four friends left Kenya in 2021 to embark on an expedition with the distinct goal of raising money for East African wildlife rangers.
The Tuk South group has finally arrived in Cape Town after eighteen months of traversing a distance of 23 000 kilometres and encountering breakdowns too numerous to count.During the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivo Horsey, accompanied by his brother Jasper and their friends Robbie Thouless and Josh Porter, thought of an audacious idea for a cross-country road trip., Porter had spent the initial months of the global crisis confined to an island in Bali, where he had been employed at a lodge.
However, it was the plight faced by game rangers in the nearby national parks that truly struck a chord within the hearts of these four men., ‘We were going out and videoing in these wild spaces, and it was just silent.’Picture: Tuk South / Facebook These communities had lost their livelihoods due to the sudden halt in tourism, burdening the rangers with additional responsibilities at a time when their salaries were being reduced.Ivo emphasised the dire situation, remarking, ‘If those rangers weren’t there, those parks wouldn’t have survived. People were desperate.’
‘The beautiful thing about that tuk-tuk is that it’s such a cultural leveller. There are no doors or windows. When you drive into a town, you can’t help but have that whole town come into your tuk. People are intrigued, and it starts up a dialogue,’ he toldTheir journey took them on a route encircling Mount Kenya, through the foothills of Kilimanjaro, to Ol Doinyo Lengai – an active volcano in Tanzania – and onward to the breathtaking Lake Tanganyika.
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