6 articles tagged with kenya travel
As I stepped off the small aircraft onto Lamu's airstrip, the absence of motor vehicles announced itself not through silence, but through different rhythms—wooden dhows cutting through turquoise waters, the gentle clip-clop of donkey hooves on ancient pathways, and the...
Nairobi hit me like a rhythm I wasn't expecting—complex, layered, and completely intoxicating. After decades mixing tracks in LA studios and chasing waves across five continents, I found myself drawn to Kenya's capital for a different kind of adventure altogether....
The first time I stood at the edge of Nairobi National Park, watching a tower of giraffes silhouetted against the city skyline, I understood why Kenya's capital deserves its nickname: 'The Green City in the Sun.' This metropolis exists in...
After decades of traveling with my camera, few places ignite my creative spirit like Nairobi. This vibrant metropolis—where giraffes roam against a backdrop of skyscrapers—is a photographer's *terrain de jeu parfait* (perfect playground). Having first visited Kenya on that life-changing...
When I first landed in Nairobi three summers ago, I couldn't have imagined how this bustling African capital would capture my heart. After thirty years behind the wheel of buses—first in the winding roads of Yorkshire and later in the...
The rhythmic hum of tuk-tuk engines and the colorful blur of matatus weaving through traffic greeted me as I stepped out of Kisumu International Airport last spring. This wasn't my first rodeo in East Africa, but Kisumu—Kenya's third-largest city nestled...