Tag: Lake Naivasha
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Lunch by the Lake at the Ranch House Bistro
The sun woke me early last Sunday morning. It was a day for a lunch out. And I fancied a drive. I had heard good things about the Ranch House Bistro at Lake Naivasha. In fact, anticipating the sun, I had rung the place the evening before. Someone called Lydia answered the phone. She told […]
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Camping with Pigs and Hyenas at Sanctuary Farm
I zipped open my tent and was greeted by a most peculiar scene. Beyond the rickety bamboo fence that encompassed the campsite, a podgy pig nuzzled up to a pair of tall grey horses. In an adjacent field, a handful of zebras and wildebeest grunted and grazed, and on the edge of the acacia forest […]
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Return to the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort
‘There’s a hoopoe on the lawn,’ my wife said. She had been doing her yoga exercises out on the grass, while I was having a much deserved lie-in. I thought that what she said was an ulterior transaction – that she was really meaning, ‘It’s time you got up!’ So I did. I went to […]
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Weekend of Art with the Owls in Naivasha
‘Biggles is sitting on eggs in my bathroom,’ the lady said. Biggles is a Marsh Owl, and the lady is Sarah Higgins. We were at Sarah Higgin’s amazing Naivasha Owl Centre, a beautiful house, roomy bird cages, a birds’ hospital, acacia-fringed garden, all lakeside of the South Lake Road. And I was sitting in on […]
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A Recommended Retreat by Lake Naivasha
If I want to get away for a few days to concentrate on a writing job, I know a place – Camp Carnelly’s, by Lake Naivasha. Beyond the hotels and lodges along Moi South Lake Road, it’s got just the right blend of simplicity and comfort, isolation and company, wilderness and civilisation. True to its […]
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Camping at Carnelley’s, Naivasha
‘Why don’t you stay at Carnelley’s’, my dad said. Often, a weekend retreat to Naivasha involves a night at that perennial favourite: Fisherman’s Camp. With its grazing hippos, black-and-white Colobus monkeys, and a shady canopy of acacias, it’s understandable why Fisherman’s has preserved its popularity. There is, however, an alternative, and it’s right next door. […]
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