The trip to Maasai Mara started with this note in a brown envelope. My sister gave it to me during my graduation party. She told me that it was not money but something I would really like. I kept thinking that I like money why would she do this to me. I opened it […]
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The Maasai Mara: The Stay (Mara Sopa Lodges).

We left Nairobi at 8:30am on Thursday the 13th of August. As is normal for people of my family, my sister and I were late to the picking point. We were supposed to be there at 7:30 am and we got there at 8:00am. We were six of us plus a nice lady from Rwanda […]
The goat leg that made it into the matatu

A few weeks back I was working in Westlands and I come from Thika Road so there was no need for me going into town when I could alight at Ngara and get a bus from there. For those who didn’t know this now you know. “Kangemi twenty, twenty Kangemi”, the conductor shouted. This is […]
Route 44: A guide on how to arrive alive.

Of high blood pressure and heart attack inducing commutes. Beauty is skin deep. I can attest to that specific utterance seeing that I come from a place where your matatu of choice is one that plies route 44. Our matatus are very beautiful from the outside. I know eastlands has without a doubt better matatus […]