After a lovely stretch running right along the edge of Lake Baikal we moved away from birch and pine tree territory into lusher pastures.
Migrations of heavily armed Arab cattle-herders into the lusher wetlands of the Dinka at the beginning of each dry season have caused violence for decades.
But in the new, lusher savannah, gazelle were plentiful and they tended to stay in one place throughout the year, so the humans settled down with them.
