How is your mother tongue doing? Is it growing in popularity or shrinking in usage? Apparently languages, like living species, can also become endangered and even go extinct as I discovered recently about a few languages spoken in Kenya. Take…
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It is the order of nature, it seems, that while some people in some parts of the world get their drinking water from rivers and seas, others like the pastoralist communities of Huri Hills in Marsabit, in the northern frontier…
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The latest entrant to Naivasha’s unending list of attractions is the Olkaria geothermal power plant. Yes you heard me right. A power generation plant! Owned by Kengen, the plant is the largest in Africa. But it is not the size…
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In 2010, Tamara Britten decided to combine her experience working in Kenya’s tourism industry with her MA in Creative Writing and produce a guidebook to the country. Little did she know that the project would take over two years, and…
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Ali Barbour’s Cave Restaurant is not your average restaurant in every sense. First they are only open for dinner (which, by the way, starts at 7pm). Secondly, and the most striking of them all, the restaurant is located inside an…
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The fishing village of Shela, about four kilometres south-east of Lamu Town, can get really hot – in fact it is hot throughout the year. One travel guide describes Shela as “the perfect place for daydreaming.” But for the construction…
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Campi ya Kanzi, in the hills of Chyulu, is Luca Belpietro’s dream come true. You actually get that feeling when you watch his recent talk at the TEDx Conference in LeRosey Institute, Switzerland in November of 2013, titled ‘Wake Up…
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Elephants, humans, and Neanderthals are the only animals known to have death rituals which involve observing a moment of silence before digging a shallow grave and covering the deceased elephant with dirt and branches and finally staying at the grave…
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Since the golden era of early twentieth century exploration, safaris have long been associated with glamour, elegance and romance. Notions of an authentic ‘Out of Africa’ safari adventure still ring true today and Cheli & Peacock offers some of Kenya’s…
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Is it not true that when you pick an airline to fly with the variable of decision-making is, more often than not, price? Rarely do travellers in this part of the world (and perhaps the whole world) factor in other…
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The House of Treasures, in the quiet suburbs of Karen, is a true treasure trove of priceless memories born out of the many journeys of two intrepid travellers, a mother, Janet Hurt and her daughter, Sasha, as they traversed the…
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