We spent 2 nights in Nanyuki, in order to write a good review of Kongoni Camp Restaurant in the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.
Kongoni camp is set in a nice relaxed atmosphere with excellent food at fantastic costs. Free Wi-Fi available. The staff are very good and the owner is always around for a talk or to ask you how your night is.
When you get there it's snuggled in some woods, part of a lodge and hotel, but the cafe is open to all, and used by a mix of neighbors and expats. Lots of European style food on the menu and some specials the chef has made up.
The place is like a large converted barn, extremely spacious. Just outside the door is a log fire. I'd want to say, if I wanted to start a bar this is the kind of place like to have. It's unique, rustic and you wouldn't know you are just on the edge of town.
Whilst at the Kongoni Camp the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Kongoni were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art studio, as it displays reasonable modern art from East Africa's top recent artists, away from the hustle of city life.
You can opt to either sponge up the atmosphere of this tranquil and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long term placements at the arts centre, producing and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art gallery in Nanyuki, aims to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original artistic endeavors.
Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking a huge lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, art visitors can also like watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What Kenyan safari guests find wonderful is that the equator slices clean through the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view electrifying 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 World, which is installed precisely at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The latest Arts Centre is also a unique opportunity to buy special hand- crafted African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and plenty more strange African gift concepts.
Kongoni camp is set in a nice relaxed atmosphere with excellent food at fantastic costs. Free Wi-Fi available. The staff are very good and the owner is always around for a talk or to ask you how your night is.
When you get there it's snuggled in some woods, part of a lodge and hotel, but the cafe is open to all, and used by a mix of neighbors and expats. Lots of European style food on the menu and some specials the chef has made up.
The place is like a large converted barn, extremely spacious. Just outside the door is a log fire. I'd want to say, if I wanted to start a bar this is the kind of place like to have. It's unique, rustic and you wouldn't know you are just on the edge of town.
Whilst at the Kongoni Camp the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Kongoni were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art studio, as it displays reasonable modern art from East Africa's top recent artists, away from the hustle of city life.
You can opt to either sponge up the atmosphere of this tranquil and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Gallery houses art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long term placements at the arts centre, producing and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art gallery in Nanyuki, aims to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original artistic endeavors.
Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking a huge lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, art visitors can also like watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What Kenyan safari guests find wonderful is that the equator slices clean through the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view electrifying 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 World, which is installed precisely at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The latest Arts Centre is also a unique opportunity to buy special hand- crafted African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and plenty more strange African gift concepts.
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Kongoni and the Lily Pond Arts Centre offers provoking contemporary African art, gifts and healthy lunches. Find out today, what the Kongoni Nanyuki Camp Restaurant offers in Nanyuki, the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.