Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"Racist" hotel chain that turns locals away has changed its mind

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African Safari Club , the downmarket hotel chain and tour operator, long associated with bad labour relations and terrible customer satisfa...
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Revisioning Kenya with words

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A powerful piece of performance poetry from a student journalist, Ahmed Kassim Abdi, is reported in the East African, in an eloquent piece b...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The weather in Kenya

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People regularly ask about the weather in Kenya, and webcams seem a pretty good way of seeing what it's like. There's one in the Ngo...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tsavo West's drought

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As seen in the BBC Wildest Dreams prgramme recently, Tsavo West National Park is in the grip of a crippling drought, as is much of Kenya at...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Some hotels are more. . . customer-facing than others

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Oloitokitok, 25 Feb 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009

Superb bargain at Meru National Park

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The Kinna bandas at Meru National Park are gems in the wilderness. Not only do they have incongruously large rooms, decent beds with beddi...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Diamond Beach Village, Manda Island

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If you want to be in the Lamu area, but not in Lamu town, nor in the increasingly over-developed and over-the-top atmosphere of Shela, then ...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Camp Carnelly's at Lake Naivasha

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I thought this place was delightful. It's got a fresh, bright feel about it, which is slightly lacking at the neighbouring Fisherman...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Naiberi River Campsite

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The owner of this unusual campsite and cabins is Raj Shah - a really congenial host who works in Eldoret (family run the Ken-Knit factory in...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Castle Forest Lodge

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I thought I'd start posting up some favourite places from recent travels. We really loved Castle Forest Lodge . It's exactly what yo...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Lions in Nairobi!

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Wonderful news, amid all the crap politics and meanness, Lions (and a leopard) have actually been prowling the streets of Nairobi . This cit...

British Airways staff's least favourite boss

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Almost unbelievable suggestion from British Airways' boss Willie Walsh that rather than reducing the payroll by sacking staff, they shou...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Mobile blogging

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Well, so much for thinking I'd be posting every day while in Kenya. I bought a Safaricom Mobile Office HSDPA USB Modem for my Apple MacB...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Stephen Fry in Kenya

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Stephen Fry is in east Africa filming a follow-up to Last Chance to See , the excellent 1980s book (and radio series I think?) that was pres...
Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Obama-Muslim-conspiracy theorist kicked out of Kenya

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Kenya's record on freedom of speech is improving, so some might see the expulsion from Kenya of American anti-Democrat Jerome Corsi for...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Watching the migration in the Maasai Mara

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It's hard to tell from the President Kibaki story how much he really saw of the drama of the migration itself. Kicheche Camp's alwa...
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"Tourist Number One" (President Kibaki) gets down with the crowds

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The annual wildebeest migration through the Maasai Mara National Reserve has had more than its usual publicity this year. President Mwai Kib...
Friday, August 29, 2008

Nairobi blogs

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Photo: Carnivore Most visitors think of getting out of Nairobi as fast as possible, or enduring the city if they're based there, and mak...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Scrap the lunatic line - here's another of those visions

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Now this is exciting, if it ever happens: Mombasa to Kampala in ten hours . It's part of Kenya Railways Vision 2050 (funny how the targe...

Restaurant prices in Kenya

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Kenya is experiencing the same price rises in fuel and commodities that are hitting all the world's poorest economies hardest – Restaura...