Travel and Personal
Last Moments in Kenya
As I await my flight, it perhaps is fitting to reflect on what the last three months have meant. Yet, it was only yesterday, at midnight, that I started to feel anything. I am full of wonder for this country. At the local Westlands market, or the upmarket Annabelle Thom in Junction I was struck [...]
Lamu – Paradise Island
Leave your worries at the airport. Relax. Airport transfers by dhow. Lamu is that kind of place, where you do not dictate the pace of your life. Everything the Rough Guide says is true. Life moves at the pace of a dhow or donkey. Pole Pole – Kiswahili for ‘slowly slowly’ – is an oft [...]
The Turkana Trip
I could not even make it to Lodwar, let alone Turkana – a combination of impatience, bad (or in this case no) planning, and bad luck. I went instead to Lamu (more on that later). My attempt was based on the premise that you can get to Lodwar in 1 day from Nairobi. I know [...]
Lake Turkana
What do I do with a week to spare in Kenya? Go to the coast – Mombasa and Lamu – and enjoy the legendary Kenyan sun and sand? Go to the south and climb Kilimanjaro? Take random trips from Nairobi to a few national parks – Samburu, Amboseli, Tsavo? Or go north? North, did I [...]
Last Day At UNDP Kenya
Wow! Its my last day at the UNDP – already. The past week has been overwhelming, and now its the end of the road. I am so conflicted, I don’t want to leave. Ever happen to you – you want to but don’t? Anyway, I know so much about this country now. Today’s paper had [...]
The Ties that Bind
A friend recently commented that I had become an expat. This is someone that has lived in Kenya for several years. She mixes with the UN crowd with the same ease that she visits Eastleigh, Kangemi, or Kibera – the rougher neighborhoods of Nairobi. I do not take her comments lightly. She offered to take [...]
A Few Degrees of Separation
It happened again this weekend. I met someone that, by the laws of probability, I should not have. I had met her in Geneva in October last year, a day before she was leaving for Nairobi, and when I was still contemplating coming here. Our meeting had been random, at a party, and we had [...]
KICC – The Top of Nairobi
Well, almost. Yesterday evening, after a tiring day of partying with colleagues for our ‘team building’ lunch, some friends and I headed to the KICC – the Kenyatta International Conference Centre – in Nairobi. One of the most recognizable buildings in Nairobi’s downtown district, it is also the only building that allows tourists up to [...]
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