We spent ten nights in Nanyuki, in order to write a favorable review of Sweetwaters in the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.
Sweetwaters Tented Camp is in a class of its own. Abounding with wildlife, designed to provide a fascinating mix of under canvas ambiance and uncompromising luxury, it has long been the preferred retreat of wilderness and safari lovers alike.
Impossible to believe experience with 15 giraffes visiting the waterhole directly across from our tent - less than 100 feet away! With giraffes, warthogs, zebras and waterbucks visiting each day this was a fantastic break from the dusty game drives. Attentive staff, wonderful food and sumptuous tents made for a memorable holiday. The occasional lion roar in the middle of the night added a very special "extra!
While at Sweetwaters the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Sweetwaters were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art gallery, as it displays affordable contemporary art from East Africa's top up to date artists, away from the hustle and bustle of town life.
You can choose to either suck up the atmosphere of this untroubled and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art schools in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long term placements at the arts centre, producing and showing new reasonable art works.
This new art gallery in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original works of art.
Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking an enormous lily pool.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, art visitors can also like to watch the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pool!
What Kenyan safari guests find superb is that the equator slices clean thru the middle of this Arts Centre. This indicates that you can view inspiring African art in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere!
This new Arts Centre in Nanyuki, has just installed a new equator sculpture, the Wish Globe, which is installed exactly at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The contemporary Arts Centre is also a unique opportunity to buy special hand- made African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and a lot more weird African gift concepts.
Sweetwaters Tented Camp is in a class of its own. Abounding with wildlife, designed to provide a fascinating mix of under canvas ambiance and uncompromising luxury, it has long been the preferred retreat of wilderness and safari lovers alike.
Impossible to believe experience with 15 giraffes visiting the waterhole directly across from our tent - less than 100 feet away! With giraffes, warthogs, zebras and waterbucks visiting each day this was a fantastic break from the dusty game drives. Attentive staff, wonderful food and sumptuous tents made for a memorable holiday. The occasional lion roar in the middle of the night added a very special "extra!
While at Sweetwaters the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Sweetwaters were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art gallery, as it displays affordable contemporary art from East Africa's top up to date artists, away from the hustle and bustle of town life.
You can choose to either suck up the atmosphere of this untroubled and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art schools in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long term placements at the arts centre, producing and showing new reasonable art works.
This new art gallery in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original works of art.
Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking an enormous lily pool.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, art visitors can also like to watch the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pool!
What Kenyan safari guests find superb is that the equator slices clean thru the middle of this Arts Centre. This indicates that you can view inspiring African art in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere!
This new Arts Centre in Nanyuki, has just installed a new equator sculpture, the Wish Globe, which is installed exactly at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The contemporary Arts Centre is also a unique opportunity to buy special hand- made African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and a lot more weird African gift concepts.
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