BY Rupi Mangat
Above: View of Menengai Crater from the rim at Maili Saba Camp. Courtesy Frank Matsaert Published: Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper March 23, 2023 The rickety sign on a narrow murrum road belies the grand caldera. A few minutes later we’re standing on the rim of Menengai, Africa’s second largest caldera, its floor carpeted with the […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Watch out for the whale shark safari where you may have the opportunity to swim with the largest fish in the world. Above: Lamu Stone seafront at dusk Mary Stone/@chariotcreations Published: Satmag Nation March 4 2023 The tide is high in the late afternoon. The dark blue of the Indian Ocean reveals the lush green […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Within 12 days in July, Baringo loses its famous snake men Published: The East African Nation newspaper: 31 July-5 August 2021 By Rupi Mangat “You will find a carpet viper under one out of every ten rocks,” states Jonathan Ewoi, the youngest son of the recently deceased ‘Dr’ William Ewoi, one of Baringo’s legendary ‘wazees’ […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Ziwani House on Lake Naivasha . Copyright Rupi Mangat Published: The East African Nation media It’s a full ‘snow’ moon that’s travelled the sky and across the lake to sink into the horizon while on the opposite end in the east, it’s the fiery sun lighting the sky. It’s a dramatic moment to be […]
BY Rupi Mangat
By Rupi Mangat Published: East African Nation 11 July 2011 Above: Shiv Kapila releasing African Fish Eagle. Copyright Shiv Kapila The African fish eagle is one of Africa’s most charismatic raptors. Donned in a copper-coloured mantle with a clear white collar, its very presence commends respect. Its loud and distinctive call is unmistakable – once […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Sabaki Estuary. Copyright Rupi Mangat From the archives: May 2010 On the mudflats of the Sabaki, a strong sun beats down so fierce that it makes the water over the sand sparkle. On the bridge above, cars and matatus speed over the estuary – Kenya’s biggest – unaware of the stunning vistas below and […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Sunrise at South Nandi Forest surrounded by Nyayo Tea Zone at Kobujoi. May 2019. Copyright Rupi Mangat It’s dawn. And magical. In the first light, the rising sun illuminates the tea and forest-clad peaks of the South Nandi Forest as a white mist lifts languidly from the valleys. It’s so beautiful an image that […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Maralal Camel Derby by Weldon Kennedy Published: 2007 Saturday Magazine, Nation Maralal’s one of those really interesting towns in the outback, a frontier perched in a valley near a great fault line that happens to be the Great Rift Valley with a stunning view of the deep gorge that on a windy day can […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Published: December 2007 Above: A boulder blocks the slot canyon at Hells Gate National Park, Kenya. by Heyandrewhyde Fiery mountains spitting out red-hot molten lava, earth-shattering forces from deep in the earth’s belly and floods have shaped what is a trip to ‘hell’. ‘Let’s go to hell,” says our local Maasai guide from the Olkaria […]
BY Rupi Mangat
From the archives: February 2009 Above: The prayers room inside the extension of the great mosque of Kilwa at Kilwa Kisiwani. It was build as part of the first arabic settlement and nowadays an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Credit Robin Chew Lying idyllic on the magical blue waters of the Indian Ocean, the tiny island […]
