8 articles tagged with lake victoria
The Land Cruiser's tires crunched over the salt-crusted sand as I gazed at the skeletal remains of shipwrecks dotting Namibia's haunting coastline. This marked the beginning of my most ambitious African adventure yet—a 3,000+ kilometer overland journey from the desolate...
When my husband Arjun suggested we take our five-year-old daughter Nia to his colleague's homeland of Uganda, I was immediately intrigued by the photographic possibilities. Having spent years documenting our family's wellness journeys across continents, I was eager to shift...
The gentle lapping of Lake Victoria's waves provides an unexpected soundtrack to Kisumu's emerging nightlife scene—one that most business travelers to Kenya completely overlook in favor of Nairobi's cosmopolitan offerings. During a recent consulting project with a local creative agency,...
When most travelers think of Uganda, images of mountain gorillas and safari adventures immediately come to mind. But after spending a week in Entebbe on what my university colleagues mockingly called my 'budget luxury adventure,' I discovered a cultural tapestry...
After fifteen years of globe-trotting from the misty Scottish Highlands to remote Pacific villages, I've developed a knack for peeling back the tourist veneer of any destination. When my machine learning project with a Kampala wildlife conservation group landed me...
Trading my chef's knife for a laptop wasn't exactly in my career playbook, but life has a funny way of tossing unexpected ingredients into the mix. Last month, my culinary consulting work landed me in Entebbe, Uganda – a lush,...
G'day, fellow food adventurers! If you'd told me a decade ago that I'd be writing about the culinary wonders of Western Kenya between interior design projects and wildlife photography expeditions, I might've laughed. But here I am, fresh off a...
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...