The falls raged – our faces wet with the spray of water. Not from any ordinary river but the great Nile. Here we were, my nephew and l standing on sheer rock, spell bound by the force of the falls.
Epic Safari to Murchison Falls
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Nyahururu’s Historical Church
Published Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper 29 July 2017
Above: A.I.C. Church Nyahururu
A tall silver spire breaks the tree line beyond the gorge of the Ewaso Nyiro River flowing from Thomson’s Falls in Nyahururu. “It’s an old church,” tells Pushpa Ratna of Nyahururu Panari, that’s sandwiched between the gorge and Marmanet forest, and within an easy walk to the hippo pools and the historic falls first reported to the outside world by the intrepid Joseph Thomson in 1883. He is also the first European to walk from the coast to Lake Victoria through central Kenya which was deemed dangerous because of the fearsome Maasai.
Castle Forest Lodge
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A walk on Mount Kenya – mystical, magical
Published Saturday Magazine, Nation newspaper 1 July 2017
Above Castle Forest Lodge built in 1910 – the original house Copyright Rupi Mangat
The tarmac road comes to an abrupt end at the gate of Kenya Forest Service – Castle Forest Lodge. The contrast between the flat green carpet of tea fields and the miasma of natural forest on Mount Kenya’s eastern slopes is sudden.
Castle Forest Lodge – the original house Copyright Rupi Mangat
Gate to Castle Forest Lodge Copyright Rupi Mangat
Road signs Copyright Rupi Mangat
A Run to Conserve
Safaricom Marathoners support Kenya’s rugged northern-scape
Published In The East African,Nation media 20-26 May 2017
From the high glades of Mount Kenya down to the flatlands of Samburu, past the Ewaso Nyiro River that is the life-lung of the arid lands and the iconic loaf-shaped mountain Ololokwe, a high peak pops 8,000 feet high above the plains. It’s the Warges of the Mathews Range that the local Samburu call Ol-doinyo Lenkiyieu stretching 80 kilometers north.
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