Written by Kirsty on 14/01/11, filed under General, Kenya | No Comments
W
hen staying in Nairobi you have to make sure that you eat at the world famous, Carnivore Restaurant. It is truly a unique experience, which, by the end of it, will have you eating crocodile! Trust me I was!
As you enter you can smell the succulent meat cooking literally metres away from the all the tables. Staff are dressed in their zebra outfits and the chairs are covered in an animal print making it a true African experience. When seated you are explained of the “flag system”, basically surrendering your rights to the all you can eat buffett. You are then offered a drink, which the choices are endless from juices to beer to wine and cocktails. I would recommend a Carnivore original, the Dawa, if you are a vodka fanatic you will love this! It is a refreshing and light cocktail, which will make your tastebuds tingling as they are not stingy on the vodka!! Before the drinks were even brought over we offered our first piece of meat, chicken, which I feel was a great choice to gradually prepare myself into the meat madness!
The army of carvers which were serving us with beef, pork, lamb and ostrich, reminded me of the Maasai guides which I met whilst staying at the Mara Porini and Porini Lion Camp, really friendly and will get you anything that you need or would like . By the end of this extraordinary feeding frenzy you are offered a selection of desserts which if you can manage is just as good as the meat… especially the Kenyan Coffee!
The above excursion can be pre-booked with Africa Sky on your package holiday.
Written by Grant on 31/10/10, filed under General, News | No Comments
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect
You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.
When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave behind going, and the other to leave when going back.
A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery but a ritual of reassurance.
Remember: Don’t Insult the alligator till after you cross the river.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station’.
Written by Sarah-Jayne on 07/10/10, filed under General | No Comments
It is Swahili! and as the saying goes, ‘When in Rome’, it is always useful to know a few words, here are some that I know.
Jambo Hello
Habari? How are you?
Mzuri Sana, Na wewe? Very well and you?
Kwaheri Goodbye
Pole pole Slowly
Hakuna Matata No worries/problems
Chai Tea
Kahawa Coffee
Sawa sawa OK
Tafadhali Please
Asante Sana Thank you
Simba Lion
Wapi Choo? Where are the toilets?
And of course everyone knows the Lion King, and the famous song that is sung all the time in Kenya, so here are a few of the words I could remember and and I am sure you will want to join in!
Hakuna Matata What a wonderful phrase, Hakuna Matata it ain’t no passing craze. It means no worries for the rest of your days, It’s our problem-free philosophy, Hakuna Matata.
