Standing at the Foot of Kilimanjaro: My Amboseli Experience and Why the Views Wrecked Me
There is a photograph taken of me on my third morning in Amboseli that I look at whenever I need reminding why I travel. In it, I am standing beside our Land Cruiser, one hand shielding my eyes from the early sun, looking up at something out of frame. My mouth is open. My guide […]
From Safari Dust to Ocean Breeze: Why Diani Beach is the Perfect Kenya Safari Finale
By the time I landed in Mombasa at the end of my second Kenya safari, I was physically and spiritually coated in dust. Not metaphorical dust – actual, red-brown Tsavo dust that had worked its way into my hair, my camera bag, the lining of my jacket, and, somehow, the pages of the novel I […]
Cycling Hell’s Gate National Park Kenya: Safari Without a Vehicle | Mama Mgeni
The Red Elephants of Tsavo: A Drive Through Kenya’s Wildest and Most Underrated Park
Everyone who has been to Kenya has an opinion about Tsavo, and the opinions are almost never neutral. Either they will tell you it is too big, too dry, too remote – or they will tell you it is the most extraordinary place they have ever put a tyre into and that everywhere else felt […]
Getting Lost on Purpose: A Week in Lamu, Kenya’s Oldest Living Town
Lamu smells like frankincense, salt water, and faintly of donkey, which sounds less appealing written down than it actually is. You step off the small plane at Manda Island airport and within minutes of taking the ferry across to Lamu Town, you are in a place that operates entirely on its own logic. There are […]