Loiyangalani

Loiyangalani is a small town on the southeastern shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, with a reported population of 5,117. The name means a place of many trees in the Samburu language. It is home to the Rendille and El Molo peoples and also to Turkana, Luo, Meru and Somali communities. The town was founded in the 1960s near a freshwater spring where the Rendille and El Molo lived, and its main industries are fishing, tourism and gold panning. It has an airstrip and lies about 50 kilometres from Mount Kulal, known for its forest and stones. Loiyangalani was the setting for John le Carre's novel The Constant Gardener and a location for the film of it, and in 2010 it was briefly made a district of its own.