We spent a night in Nanyuki, in order to write a good review of the Trout Tree Restaurant, Nanyuki, in the Mount Kenya area of Kenya.
The Trout Tree is a world away. A stunning tree house built above a river and a series of trout tanks, set off the well trodden route and definitely worth a visit.
Service is quick and the food, though simple was delightful. The menu was constrained in that everything they serve is hot or cold smoked trout, trout chowder or trout slices.
The cold smoked trout comes with tasty horseradish sauce and the trout slices include a hot sauce. Griddled Trout was my choice on the key courses - the trout comes fresh from the ponds below the fish was very well cooked and very fresh.
While we were at the Trout Tree Eatery, the present shop staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Trout Tree were adamant that we paid a visit to the gigantic art gallery, as it displays reasonable modern art from East Africa's top modern artists, away from the bustle of city 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 Studio homes art graduates from art schools in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long-term placements at the arts center, producing and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art studio in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, while allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.
We also enjoyed a good lunch on a deck, overlooking an enormous lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a backdrop, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What we found amazing 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. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The arts centre has a singular shop stocked with hand- made African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and a lot more unusual African gift ideas. That was most of our vacation money gone!
The Trout Tree is a world away. A stunning tree house built above a river and a series of trout tanks, set off the well trodden route and definitely worth a visit.
Service is quick and the food, though simple was delightful. The menu was constrained in that everything they serve is hot or cold smoked trout, trout chowder or trout slices.
The cold smoked trout comes with tasty horseradish sauce and the trout slices include a hot sauce. Griddled Trout was my choice on the key courses - the trout comes fresh from the ponds below the fish was very well cooked and very fresh.
While we were at the Trout Tree Eatery, the present shop staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The workers at Trout Tree were adamant that we paid a visit to the gigantic art gallery, as it displays reasonable modern art from East Africa's top modern artists, away from the bustle of city 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 Studio homes art graduates from art schools in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long-term placements at the arts center, producing and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art studio in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, while allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.
We also enjoyed a good lunch on a deck, overlooking an enormous lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a backdrop, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What we found amazing 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. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The arts centre has a singular shop stocked with hand- made African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and a lot more unusual African gift ideas. That was most of our vacation money gone!
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Trout Tree Nanyuki and the Lily Pond Arts Centre offers inspiring contemporary African art, gifts and healthy lunches. Find out today, what the Trout Tree Restaurant Nanyuki offers in Nanyuki, the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.