Tag: Naivasha
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A night in Naivasha
The rapid rise of Airbnb over the past decade has transformed the way we travel. There are now over six million rooms, flats and houses listed on the Airbnb website, in 100,000 cities and towns across the globe. The affordability of these rentals, relative to the cost of staying in a hotel, is central to […]
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Three Old Men Loose In Naivasha
Peter was back. Now this was the Peter who featured in my very first Going Places twenty nine years ago in 1991. He was out here on holiday from the UK, and I took him for a picnic to Lake Magadi. I love that place – its wildness, its stark beauty. But when we got […]
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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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A Night at the Kiboko Luxury Camp
Having spent the last few weekends roughing it somewhat in Amboseli and the Mau Eburu Forest, my girlfriend and I decided to treat ourselves. We left the tent at home and headed to Naivasha for a night at the Kiboko Luxury Camp. This is the relatively new development on the grounds of the Lake Naivasha […]
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New Guidebook to The Mau Eburu Forest
I came to work a few weeks ago and found a large brown envelope on my desk. Inside was a new copy of The Mau Eburu Forest – A Visitors’ Guide, and a very neatly written letter from the guide’s editor, Gordon Boy. ‘I hope this guide might inspire one (or more) in your team […]
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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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