"You should learn to trust people, especially if they are leading you to a strange place you have never been to,” said Ann Cheptumo, a Malindi-based tour operator.
We had met Cheptumo early Thursday morning at Gede after a gruelling all-night long bus ride from Nairobi. Cheptumo was eager to meet a group of journalists from East Africa who were on a “fact finding-mission” on local tourism.