While staying at Subira House in Lamu Old Town, Wendy Watta delves into traditional Swahili architecture and, faced with a slowly evolving island, muses that some places should perhaps be…
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Having spent a glorious week exploring its beaches, sampling local and Italian food, following strangers on impromptu adventures and diving head first into an array of excursions, Wendy Watta makes…
With an array of African art, textiles, jewellery, music instruments and more collected from over 20 African countries, coupled with its unique architecture inspired by the traditional mud houses across…
Inspired by vintage British horse-drawn caravans of yesteryear, these huts in Nanyuki are certainly one of a kind. PHOTOGRAPHS: BRIAN SIAMBI Finally, the Nomad team arrives in Nanyuki after a…
With no electricity for the weekend and miles of beautiful landscape to wander, Wendy Watta discovers the joy of fly fishing, hiking and a cozy cabin at Ragati Conservancy. PHOTOGRAPHS:…
An anticipated drive to the scenic Lake Ellis at 3,500m up Mt Kenya doesn’t exactly start out as planned, writes Wendy Watta. PHOTOGRAPHS: BRIAN SIAMBI, PETER NDUNG’U Growing up you…
At Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, we explore the symbiotic relationship between wildlife, tourism and local communities, and how these three pillars contribute to and benefit from conservation. Photographs: Brian Siambi…
Lodges play a key role in conservation, ensuring a continued protection of wildlife while directly enriching the lives of surrounding communities. At Lewa, a conservancy fee of Ksh 4,500 per…
Wandering around the beautiful, now-renovated four rooms of Kimana House, it is hard to believe that at the turn of 2018, it was still a dark and dreary space with…
We review various properties to stay at while at Zanzibar’s North Coast, Stone Town, East Coast as well as South Coast Photography: Brian Siambi and Respective Properties North Coast ZURI…