The Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa has a dram location, one that spells paradise, a glorious stretch of land overlooking g a turquoise ocean, amidst mixed soft white sands. The luxuriously designed accommodation surrounded by 30 acres of tropical gardens, redefines comfort and service to the discerning traveler. It is the perfect escapade for relaxation and rejuvenation, ideal for a spa enthusiast. Its proximity to the wilderness is a veritable treat for the adventure seekers.
The sheer delight of the African wilderness combined with the enchantment of the ocean crates the spirit of this beach resort and spa. Diani reef beach resort and spa is based in South Coast, Mombasa and sets new international standards in hospitality and leisure. It makes any occasion be it a wedding, a conference or a business meet a memorable one with its unlimited innovative services.
With the beach resort offering rooms that face the Gardens or the ocean you will always have a room with a view. They also have Deluxe rooms, junior suites, penthouse suites and presidential suites that guarantee you a connection to the world through internet. The kitchen offers on array of delectable dishes, local and exotic international cuisines. The Nirvana Health and wellness spa takes an uncompromising approach to the health well being and beauty of the guest. The therapies go beyond mere treatment of appearance. All the therapies offered are carefully chosen to detox, combat stress, pollution and discomforts caused by urban life.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Thursday, November 6, 2008
CALENDER LAKE MALAWI
David Livingstone started it off with lake of stars. When it was realized that the giant stretch of water was approximately 365 miles from north to south and 52 miles wide, it became the calendar lake. For the visitor it is quite simply the jewel in the crown of all Malawi has to offer the visitor. The lake fills that yawning gash in the lands of eastern Africa, the Great Rift Valley. Its deepest point plunges 700 meters.
Such a vast expanse of warm fresh water and an absence of tides is temptation enough but surrounding the lake are great stretches of gold and silver sand beaches separated by enticing rocky caves and promontories. The beaches are clean and quite frequently completely empty. A feeling of ownership comes over the sunbathes or beach comber. Venture into the water, its warm enough to swim all year round, and you join the fish life which is the lake’s treasure. Lake Malawi is home to what is probably the largest number of fish species of any lake in the world. No wonder the lake is a Mecca for snorkellers and scuba divers. There’s even the world’s first fresh water national park at cape maclear.
Sailing has long been popular on the lake. The best known manifestation of this sport is the famous Lake Malawi International sailing marathon. This has been an annual convent since 1980s and always attracts a good field. The race is over five or six legs and takes a considerable portion of the lake.
Such a vast expanse of warm fresh water and an absence of tides is temptation enough but surrounding the lake are great stretches of gold and silver sand beaches separated by enticing rocky caves and promontories. The beaches are clean and quite frequently completely empty. A feeling of ownership comes over the sunbathes or beach comber. Venture into the water, its warm enough to swim all year round, and you join the fish life which is the lake’s treasure. Lake Malawi is home to what is probably the largest number of fish species of any lake in the world. No wonder the lake is a Mecca for snorkellers and scuba divers. There’s even the world’s first fresh water national park at cape maclear.
Sailing has long been popular on the lake. The best known manifestation of this sport is the famous Lake Malawi International sailing marathon. This has been an annual convent since 1980s and always attracts a good field. The race is over five or six legs and takes a considerable portion of the lake.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
JADE SEA KENYA
Lake Turkana is also known as Jade Sea and the surroundings area as the ‘cradle of mankind’. With its blue – green waters, bleak stony shores, and crocodile inhabited volcanic isles. The renowned paleontologist Richard Leakey was led to conclude it was here that man first trod open the earth. The million year old skull of Homo Erectus found at Koobi Fora on the lakes eastern coast vindicated Leakey’s famous guess.
The lake’s parched shores are now home to the Turkana, a tribe of fiercely independent cattle-herding, cattle stealing warriors who have vehemently defied all authorities for the last hundred years. A tad more neighborly are the El molo, said to be numerically the world’s smallest tribe, they once lived by hunting and the now protected hippo and Nile crocodile. East f Lake Turkana is the Chalbi desert. Geographically cracked and unrelentingly flat it throws up mirages where its long flat horizons shimmer hotly with the sky. The camel caravans and herds of goats that ply this wasteland are driven by the Boran and Gabbra, moving from one oasis to the next.
A drive from one of the oasis will take you to the outskirts of a lush rain forest. This is Marsabit. Marsabit itself is a national park. It has a market town, lots of wildlife and high volcanic lakes. Such a lake paradise. It is certainly a paradise for game. Elephants and buffaloes emerge from the forest to take their evening drink.
The lake’s parched shores are now home to the Turkana, a tribe of fiercely independent cattle-herding, cattle stealing warriors who have vehemently defied all authorities for the last hundred years. A tad more neighborly are the El molo, said to be numerically the world’s smallest tribe, they once lived by hunting and the now protected hippo and Nile crocodile. East f Lake Turkana is the Chalbi desert. Geographically cracked and unrelentingly flat it throws up mirages where its long flat horizons shimmer hotly with the sky. The camel caravans and herds of goats that ply this wasteland are driven by the Boran and Gabbra, moving from one oasis to the next.
A drive from one of the oasis will take you to the outskirts of a lush rain forest. This is Marsabit. Marsabit itself is a national park. It has a market town, lots of wildlife and high volcanic lakes. Such a lake paradise. It is certainly a paradise for game. Elephants and buffaloes emerge from the forest to take their evening drink.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
NORTHERN KENYA SAMBURU AND BUFALLO SPRINGS NATIONAL RESERVE
Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserve lie adjacent to the small town of Archers post which is some 325 km north of Nairobi in Kenya’s arid Northern frontier district. This is a spectacular region of sand rivers, isolated mountains rising sheer from the plains, long droughts and sudden torrential rainstorms. It is also the best place to find dry country mammals such as Oryx, gerenuk, reticulated giraffes and endangered Grey’s zebra with their pin stripes and large dish shaped ears. The reserve also provides regular sightings of all the big cats and is visited by large herds of elephants. The bush country of northern Kenya also supports on amazing variety o birds and the presence of water and riverine woodlands in theses reserves increases this diversity. Almost 400 species have been recorded in this area including Somali ostriches (distinguished by males’ bluish legs and necks), birds of prey form the magnificent, martial eagles to the diminutive pygmy falcon, kingfishers, hornbills, rollers, bee-eaters, and game birds such as guinea fowl and sand grouse.
The scenic beauty and ecological importance of the reserve centres around the crocodile infested Uaso Nyiro River. It flows quietly between wide tree – lined banks within the reserves and forms the boundary between them with Samburu lying to its north and buffalo springs to the south. A bridge built in 1964 just upstream fro Samburu lodge links the two reserves. On leaving the reserve the river cuts deep into the ground and plunges into deep gorges in the east of Shaba National reserve. The location of Joy Adamsons last adventure.
The scenic beauty and ecological importance of the reserve centres around the crocodile infested Uaso Nyiro River. It flows quietly between wide tree – lined banks within the reserves and forms the boundary between them with Samburu lying to its north and buffalo springs to the south. A bridge built in 1964 just upstream fro Samburu lodge links the two reserves. On leaving the reserve the river cuts deep into the ground and plunges into deep gorges in the east of Shaba National reserve. The location of Joy Adamsons last adventure.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
TANZANIA MT. KILIMANJARO
Tanzania has some of the most spectacular wildlife in the world. From the great migration to buffalo grazing at the base of the Ngorongoro crater, no one who has been on safari in Tanzania will ever forget it. Tanzania is also the land of pristine rainforest, spectacular mountains and unspoilt coral reefs. There is more to discover in the heartbeat of Africa than large carnivores.
Like large mountains, for instance, Kilimanjaro rises 5,896m above sea level and is Africa’s highest peak. In 2 AD Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer wrote of a mysterious lands to the south of Somalia that contained ‘man eating barbarians’ and ‘ a great snow capped mountain’ The man eating barbarians were unaccounted for, but the local Chagga people called the cloud shrouded mountain ‘ Kilema Kyaro’ meaning ‘that which cannot be conquered’ or ‘that which makes a journey impossible’.
Well they weren’t climbing and should you decide to ascend the mountain you will keep having flashbacks to the Lord of the Rings where Frodo and Sam were climbing Mount Doom. You will imagine, look and smell like those struggling habits, equally small and with feet as equally large and cumbersome. Adding to a growing sense of surrealism is the rapid change of scenery. Kilimanjaro has five ecosystems from foothill to summit. After farmland you enter into rainforest. The rich damp smell gives way to a drier, earthier fragrance as you pass into heath. Low lying shrub is interspersed with towering plants like the yellow Senecio flower which grows to five meters!
Like large mountains, for instance, Kilimanjaro rises 5,896m above sea level and is Africa’s highest peak. In 2 AD Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer wrote of a mysterious lands to the south of Somalia that contained ‘man eating barbarians’ and ‘ a great snow capped mountain’ The man eating barbarians were unaccounted for, but the local Chagga people called the cloud shrouded mountain ‘ Kilema Kyaro’ meaning ‘that which cannot be conquered’ or ‘that which makes a journey impossible’.
Well they weren’t climbing and should you decide to ascend the mountain you will keep having flashbacks to the Lord of the Rings where Frodo and Sam were climbing Mount Doom. You will imagine, look and smell like those struggling habits, equally small and with feet as equally large and cumbersome. Adding to a growing sense of surrealism is the rapid change of scenery. Kilimanjaro has five ecosystems from foothill to summit. After farmland you enter into rainforest. The rich damp smell gives way to a drier, earthier fragrance as you pass into heath. Low lying shrub is interspersed with towering plants like the yellow Senecio flower which grows to five meters!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
KITE SURFING: KENYA
A barrier wafting on the beach energized by whistling wind reads come kiting. The location is on Kenya’s South Coast at Galu Kinando, the jewel of Diani Beach’s tourist resort. It is a premier kite surfing facility called Aqualand at Pinewood Resort. Situated about 30 kilometers south of Mombasa and only 30 minutes drive from Likoni ferry, Aqualand has specifically been chosen for it is suitable geographical location. It offers probably the finest beach in Kenya for kite surfing as well as being in very close proximity to the now world famous scuba diving area of Kinanda.
What exactly has made Aqualand at Pinewood village attract this sport in Kenya? According to the guests and professional kite surfers it is the winds and the great view of the pristing beaches. Based on research, the side shore has consistent northeast kaskazi winds with speeds of 15 to 25 knots from December till March. Then from June till September the area experiences South East Kisii winds running at speeds of about 15 kilometers per hour and what a kite surfer needs is anything from eight knots. It is a completely new sight at Galu Kinando beach with the kite surfers swaying, spinning and making dramatic u-turns on the sea against the backdrop of an azure sky. You will see them perform wonderful sommer soults high to the sky and then landing with the agility of paratroopers. As soon as they hit the surface the vertical movement immediately transforms with a horizontal one with amazing momentum!
What exactly has made Aqualand at Pinewood village attract this sport in Kenya? According to the guests and professional kite surfers it is the winds and the great view of the pristing beaches. Based on research, the side shore has consistent northeast kaskazi winds with speeds of 15 to 25 knots from December till March. Then from June till September the area experiences South East Kisii winds running at speeds of about 15 kilometers per hour and what a kite surfer needs is anything from eight knots. It is a completely new sight at Galu Kinando beach with the kite surfers swaying, spinning and making dramatic u-turns on the sea against the backdrop of an azure sky. You will see them perform wonderful sommer soults high to the sky and then landing with the agility of paratroopers. As soon as they hit the surface the vertical movement immediately transforms with a horizontal one with amazing momentum!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
ZANZIBAR TANZANIA: ARABIAN NIGHTS
If ever there was a suitable setting for Arabian nights Zanzibar would be it. It is even rumored that Sinbad the sailor was washed up on Zanzibar’s shores during his travels. Children run laughing through labyrinthine streets, paddlers sell old Aladdin lamps, and dark eyes look out from windows of decadence and mystery.
The monsoon winds blew the first Arab ships into Zanzibar early in the 8th century. Legend has it that a Sultan of Persia dreamt a rat eating away the foundation of his house. He interpreted this to mean the foundation of his house. He interpreted this to mean his dynasty was under threat and thus his family and he set out for safer lands.
In its time, Zanzibar was one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Traders came from all over the East to barter for ivory, slaves and spices. There is more to Zanzibar than a wander though a glorious past. On prison island five kilometers from the mainland, living relies from the era of the sultans are still crawling around. The giant Aldabra tortoises were brought from the Seychelles in the early 19th century for the Sultan Seyyid. They can weigh up to 300kg and live for over hundred years. Jozani forest is home to one of Africa’s last primates. The red colobus monkey is the only one of its kind in the world. Beside their lack of opposable thumb, they have different calls to other colobus monkeys, distinctive red hair on their backs and a punk rocket hairstyle! Tours around here can be arranged through http://www.realafrica.co.uk.
The monsoon winds blew the first Arab ships into Zanzibar early in the 8th century. Legend has it that a Sultan of Persia dreamt a rat eating away the foundation of his house. He interpreted this to mean the foundation of his house. He interpreted this to mean his dynasty was under threat and thus his family and he set out for safer lands.
In its time, Zanzibar was one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Traders came from all over the East to barter for ivory, slaves and spices. There is more to Zanzibar than a wander though a glorious past. On prison island five kilometers from the mainland, living relies from the era of the sultans are still crawling around. The giant Aldabra tortoises were brought from the Seychelles in the early 19th century for the Sultan Seyyid. They can weigh up to 300kg and live for over hundred years. Jozani forest is home to one of Africa’s last primates. The red colobus monkey is the only one of its kind in the world. Beside their lack of opposable thumb, they have different calls to other colobus monkeys, distinctive red hair on their backs and a punk rocket hairstyle! Tours around here can be arranged through http://www.realafrica.co.uk.
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