Review of Sweetwaters in the Mount Kenya Region
We spent ten nights in Nanyuki, in order to write an enthusiastic review of Sweetwaters in the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.
Sweetwaters Tented Camp is in a class of its own. Abounding with wildlife, designed to supply a beguiling mix of under canvas ambiance and uncompromising luxury, it has long been the most popular retreat of wilderness and safari lovers alike.
Impossible to believe experience with 15 giraffes visiting the waterhole directly across from our tent - less than 100 feet away! With giraffes, warthogs, zebras and waterbucks visiting each day this was a fantastic break from the dusty game drives. Attentive staff, wonderful food and sumptuous tents made for a memorable holiday. The occasional lion roar in the middle of the night added a very special "extra!
While at Sweetwaters the staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.
The staff at Sweetwaters were adamant that we paid a visit to the vast art studio, as it displays cost-effective modern art from East Africa's top contemporary artists, away from the bustle of city life.
You can decide to either soak up the atmosphere of this composed 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 full time, long-term placements at the arts centre, manufacturing 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 pieces of art.
Safari guests can also enjoy a good lunch on a deck, overlooking a huge lily pool.
With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, art visitors can also like to watch the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pool!
What Kenyan safari guests find dazzling 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. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".
The modern Arts Centre is also a unique chance to buy special hand- made African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and lots more strange African gift concepts.
Sweetwaters Ol Pejeta and the Lily Pond Arts Centre offers provoking recent African art, gifts and healthy lunches Find out today, what the Sweetwaters Tented Camp in Nanyuki, the Mount Kenya area of Kenya.
Category: African Art