We spent three nights in Nanyuki, in order to write a great review of Lewa Safari Camp Nanyuki in the Mount Kenya area of Kenya.
Through our stay at Lewa Safari Camp, service was conscientious and awfully friendly. The food, atmosphere and staff are unrivaled.
At Lewa, the common lounge area feels like being in a friend's warm and comfortable living room. 1 or 2 cozy areas allow families to gather or those of us traveling independently, an opportunity to meet and chat about the day's journeys with other guests.
The tents are large, ethereal, and snug. The laundry services are very good. There are many activities besides going out on safari, including horseback riding and visiting a town or forest. The horseback riding is fun as you get nearer to the animals. The forest was a pleasant change that involved hiking, walking across a long, treetop bridge, and hopping into waterfalls. The food at Lewa was delicious and all diet needs were honored. The wines were glorious and paired well with the meals. Each night at dinner, we were welcomed by genet cats, which are about the scale of a place cat. We also were stunned one night with a special dinner with a table overlooking the pool. We had a good experience at Lewa and would really like to visit again.
While at the Lewa Camp the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.The staff at Lewa were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art gallery, as it displays affordable modern art from East Africa's top up to date artists, away from the 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 Studio houses art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on fulltime, long term placements at the arts centre, making and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art studio in Nanyuki, wants to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.
We also enjoyed a healthy lunch on a deck, overlooking a big lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What we found dazzling is that the equator slices clean thru the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view provoking 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 exactly at 0000000. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The arts centre has a unique shop stocked with hand- crafted African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and lots more weird African gift concepts. That was most of our holiday cash gone!
Through our stay at Lewa Safari Camp, service was conscientious and awfully friendly. The food, atmosphere and staff are unrivaled.
At Lewa, the common lounge area feels like being in a friend's warm and comfortable living room. 1 or 2 cozy areas allow families to gather or those of us traveling independently, an opportunity to meet and chat about the day's journeys with other guests.
The tents are large, ethereal, and snug. The laundry services are very good. There are many activities besides going out on safari, including horseback riding and visiting a town or forest. The horseback riding is fun as you get nearer to the animals. The forest was a pleasant change that involved hiking, walking across a long, treetop bridge, and hopping into waterfalls. The food at Lewa was delicious and all diet needs were honored. The wines were glorious and paired well with the meals. Each night at dinner, we were welcomed by genet cats, which are about the scale of a place cat. We also were stunned one night with a special dinner with a table overlooking the pool. We had a good experience at Lewa and would really like to visit again.
While at the Lewa Camp the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.The staff at Lewa were adamant that we made a trip to the massive art gallery, as it displays affordable modern art from East Africa's top up to date artists, away from the 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 Studio houses art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on fulltime, long term placements at the arts centre, making and displaying new affordable art works.
This new art studio in Nanyuki, wants to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, whilst allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.
We also enjoyed a healthy lunch on a deck, overlooking a big lily pond.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pond!
What we found dazzling is that the equator slices clean thru the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view provoking 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 exactly at 0000000. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The arts centre has a unique shop stocked with hand- crafted African gifts like beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and lots more weird African gift concepts. That was most of our holiday cash gone!
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Lewa Camp and the Lily Pond Arts Centre offer electrifying modern African art, gifts and healthy lunches. Find out today, what the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy offers in Nanyuki, the Mount Kenya area of Kenya.