Friday, June 29, 2007

Gallery's vigango no longer for sale?

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A sign of the times? A prominent Boston gallery has removed most indications that it's selling a collection of Vigango (Mijikenda memor...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mijikenda grave posts returned

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It's a tragedy how many of these vigango memorial posts have ended up in galleries and private collections in European and North Americ...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Would you run here?

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We didn't run at Il Ngwesi , but we were quite happy to walk here, through the thick bush, with our American friends, and our six kids a...

Do the Maasai have insurance against elephant attack?

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It was a terrible accident and I hope Lewa and its supporters have the funds to meet their legal responsibilities. But even if the final se...
Monday, June 11, 2007

This certainly does. . .

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It's hard to imagine today's explosion had any connection with Mungiki. Some Islamic extremist cell seems more likely. Either way,...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Does this have an impact on tourism?

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The Mungiki murders and police shootings will leave a lot of people outside Kenya confused – these events are hardly headline news in Europe...

What the hell is going on in Mathare?

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Yet again, Kenya's police bring shame and scorn on the country, with the mass shootings of more than thirty "suspected members of M...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Rough Guide to Kenya online

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You can check out the Rough Guide to Kenya online – there are large chunks of the content of the latest edition available online at the Ro...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Lamu's safe

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For now. The oil exploration that's been going on near the archipelago for decades seems to have reached another inconclusive end . But ...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Inaccurate hotel descriptions. . . oops.

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Pierre Oberson of Kijani House Hotel in Shela, Lamu, has emailed to point out that the hotel isn't properly described in the new editio...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Don't forget Laikipia

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Talk to a travel agent about Kenya and they'll all think of the Maasai Mara and Tsavo. Some may mention Samburu or Nakuru. But you'l...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Latest fees in the Maasai Mara area

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Maasai Mara fees also went up, but in a somewhat confusing and complicated way. The reserve itself, south of the Talek and east of the Mara ...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

Bad news for your budget

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National Park fees increased across the board last summer – frustratingly just after the latest edition of the Rough Guide went to the print...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Good news on Mount Elgon

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Lillian Nsubuga, writing in The East African (Nairobi) says Uganda and Kenya have recently allowed visitors to Mt Elgon National Park to cro...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

From the Rough Guide coverage of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant and rhino orphanage

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After many years of trial and error, David Sheldrick's widow, Dame Daphne Sheldrick, and her staff, have become the world’s experts on h...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Rough Guide Map of Kenya & Northern Tanzania

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It's worth looking out for the new Rough Guide map of Kenya (1:950,000) which is printed on rip-proof, waterproof plastic paper and is (...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Maasai Mara

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This cheetah was well outside the reserve boundary, in the vicinity of Kicheche Mara Camp . As seen in the BBC's Big Cat Week , there...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Google Earth in Kenya

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If you haven't looked at Google Earth for a while, you'll find the Kenya coverage has improved somewhat, with hi-res coverage of gre...