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Great
Places to Visit this Easter |
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Become
an ELNEWS Contributor |
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Here
Comes Easter |
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Travelling
Safe |
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Share
Your Photos with the World |
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The
Kenyan Film Industry has come of Age |
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Check
Books on Kenya |
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15th issue of ELNEWS,
is out. In this issue we announce our departure from
tradition, where we have been the sole content providers
for this e-newsletter, by announcing our new contributors'
initiative that will give our readers an opportunity
to contribute to content appearing in future issues
of the online newsletter. Read section below on 'ELNEWS
contributors' for details on how to participate. |
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GREAT
Places to Visit
this Easter
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our recommended sites below and consider them
as you plan for the forthcoming Easter and Mother's
Day events. |
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Naromoru
Anglican Church
Visit this little church in central Kenya that
once hosted the now queen of England, Queen
Elizabeth II. It is while on a holiday
here that Elizabeth, then princess, heard the
news of the passing away of her father and her
subsequent ascention to the throne. |
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Jumba
La Mtwana
Jumba La Mtwana, means the
large house of the slave. This is a ruined historical
town at the Kenya coast established in the 13th
century. It had a rather short period of habitation
of only one century. a lot of historical intrigue
sorrrounds this village. |
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Wamunyu
Wood Carvers
Meet the famous Wamunyu Wood Carvers
in Machakos and see first-hand how a community
is attempting to preserve the rare Muvingo
(Ebony Teak) through their works of art. |
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Railway
Museum
Walking around the Railway Museum
is like turning the pages of a good history
book on Kenya. Each item in the museum has a
story to tell. |
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Become
an ELNEWS
CONTRIBUTOR
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For
the first time ever, Enchanted Landscapes®
is extending this opportunity to our subscribers to
contribute to content that appears on future issues
of ELNEWS.
Share your experiences on any topic around travel,
music, culture, etc on Kenya and get your article
featured. All submitted articles will be vetted and
carefully selected. Successful contributors will be
duly notified of the issue their article will feature
and will be contacted for any additional material
including photos that may be required. Submit
your article today and get published. |
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Here
Comes EASTER
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Easter is a happy
time, a time to celebrate new life. Along with the
deep religious meaning, it’s also an occasion
for gifts and games, and many of these involve Easter
eggs. It’s been a custom to color, decorate
and exchange eggs for hundreds of years.
If you're planning on coloring regular eggs for
Easter, choose natural dyes over those that come
with traditional decorating kits. Natural dyes,
in fact, give you more color possibilities: every
shade from greenish-yellow and lavender to brown,
blue and orange. Just boil your eggs in water with
a bit of vinegar and one of these ingredients below,
then let simmer for at least 15 minutes. Here are
some of the natural sources of colours:
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Purple
grape juice (for lavender) |
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Red
cabbage (for blue) |
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Spinach
(for green) |
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Carrot
tops, orange peels or lemon peels (for yellow) |
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Coffee
or black walnut shells (for brown) |
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Yellow
onion skins (for orange) |
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Beets
or cranberries (for pink) |
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Red
onion skins (for red) |
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Go
GREEN this Easter and help protect our environment |
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If
you have any Easter specials planned, you can
showcase them on our website. Contact Sales |
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Travelling
SAFE
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If you are considering travelling abroad this festive
season, it might be prudent to consider your safety
and that of your family or friends and your travel
gear of course! In that case you may want to explore
travel insurance options available to you and weigh
out the benefits and costs involved. Check our Travel
Insurance pages.
To advertise your travel insurance services check
our Travel
Insurance rates. |
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SHARE
Your PHOTOS with the World
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pgallery.gif) Enchanted
Landscapes® is at it again.
This time round we have innovated a unique product
for those who have just had a memorable event and
they would want to share the images of that event
with family and friends.
With our photo gallery system, we can now afford you
the luxury of owning an online photo album at an amazing
rate of US$ 16.67/mo. You can showcase
up to 50 captioned images online. If you need your
gallery secured with a username and password so that
only those you share the password and username with
can see your photos that can be done with a one-off
setup fee of US$ 5.00. See our photo
gallery here: Photo
Gallery |
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The
Kenyan FILM INDUSTRY Has
come of Age
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Within
a very short time the Kenyan film industry
has transformed itself into a potentially profitable
venture seing the country churn out award winning
documentaries, TV series and films. Below we bring
you a sample of movies that rocked the Kenyan movie
industry in the recent past: |
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Title: |
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Malooned
(2007) |
Director: |
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Bob Nyanja |
Starring: |
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Gabriella
Mutia/ Godfrey Odhaimbo |
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Silver
Dhow, Zanzibar International Film
Festival 2007 |
From homegrown talent, director Bob
Nyanja, comes an original Kenyan
film. Di (Gabriella Mutia) is "28",
beautiful, intelligent, confident, and
just the tiniest bit spoiled. From their
first meeting, Luther (Godfrey Odhiambo)
can see nothing makes this woman happy,
especially the thought of spending her
Easter weekend with him… in a toilet!
Trapped together in the ladies of the
15th floor of a Nairobi skyscraper, the
two have no choice but to make the best
of their forced "vacation",
working together despite their differences;
finding in themselves, and each other,
a strength untold. |
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Title: |
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Mo
& Me (2006) |
Director: |
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Roger
Mills / Murad Rayani |
Starring: |
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Awards: |
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Best
International Documentary - Los
Angeles International Film Festival |
Salim
Amin, son and only child
of world renowned journalist the late
Mohamed "Mo" Amin,
undertakes a journey of recollection
and reflection into the life of the
frequently absent, globe-trotting
father he loved, revered and feared.
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Check
BOOKS on Kenya
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Check
our NEW section on books either on Kenya or written
by Kenyans. We look forward to building this section
as a reliable reference on kenyan publications. Keep
checking for updates. We have included 2 popular titles
here as examples. |
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Petals
of Blood
The puzzling murder of three African directors
of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for
this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment
in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale,
Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful
investigation of a spectacular triple murder in
upcountry Kenya... |
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Dreamed of Africa
Both a dream fulfilled and personal tragedy
are revealed in this moving memoir. As a child
living in Italy, the author was fascinated with
Africa. Then, in 1972 at 25, divorced and with
a young son, she visited Kenya with her then-fiance,
Paolo Gallmann. context is absent, with only
"at 25" above They settled on a ranch
on the Laikipia Plateau at the edge of the Great
Rift Valley. With an abundance of nearby wildlife--elephants,
rhino, buffalo... |
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More Books
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