On the isle of Manda, a beautiful life
Published 2 September 2017 Saturday magazine Nation newspaper
Above: Beautiful beach by Diamonds on Manda Island opposite Lamu island on Kenya coast. Copyright Rupi Mangat
The ocean tide flows in from the deep sea in the late afternoon putting aside any thought of visiting the little-known fort at the tip of the channel between the isles of Lamu and Manda – unless we want to battle the ocean current. Continue reading “Diamonds on the Beach”
Discovering more of the Nile at Murchison Falls and looking for chimpanzees in Uganda
Published 19 August 2017 – Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper
Above: Chimpanzee baby playing in the forest – Image by: Michael Nichols
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“When the crocodile jumps into the boat, you jump out,” tells our guide on the sail to reach the base of Murchison falls.
The Nile crocodile is gigantic – almost 15 feet long lying still as a statue with gaping jaws revealing a set of sharp-pointed teeth. My childhood memory is of the banks lined with crocodiles – we see only four now.
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.
Published Saturday Magazine,Nation newspaper 5 August 2017
“This part of town was called Utukuni,” states Hadija Ernst of Save Lamu, a coalition of 36 local NGOs to promote Lamu’s sustainable development, while protecting its culture, history and natural resources.
Utukuni in Kiswahili means market. “It was a market street where the merchants had their warehouses.”
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.
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