DAVIDA GETAWAY The story of Davida Getaway is one of shining a spotlight into a dark, forgotten place. A treasure trove of nature’s goodies! The idea for its creation points to an effort to encapsulate the wholesomeness of an un-adulterated environment, in deep countryside. The air is unbelievably light, seemingly sieved of every particle that […]
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I did it! Finally, i did it!! and quite unexpectedly i must say! “Is there a nearby route to Satima?” How far is Table Mountain summit from your place?” “Do you have a hiking route to Rurumeria from Davida?” These and many other related questions were asked. How was i to know, when i personally […]
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Ten years now… No. Twelve years as at last month actually. Twelve years of a labour of love. It’s been a typical love dance. Now you’re up, now you’re down; backwards, forwards; this way that way. Never a moment of boredom though. Never a thought to retreat! Every step feels right. Never a doubt of […]
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I was drawn to Nyandarua by an invisible force. Now i know it was my soul that needed a home. I found a place where my heart is filled with the simple joy of the fact of being alive; the basic natural act of taking in air through the lungs and back out. Here, breathing […]
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I miss Nyandarua. For a number of reasons; and a number of months, i have been quite a number of miles away. In another home, yes. One many would even consider to be more comfortable, with many earthly creature comforts. In the suburbs of the Big City. Private space, tick; flowers, shrubs in the gardens, […]
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Ever heard of it? It is funny how it takes an ‘outsider’ to give value to what you have always taken for granted. Nyandarua ranges, as i prefer to refer to the Aberdare Mountain ranges, are a truly magnificent form of creation; a sight for sore eyes! Hikers will tell you that Elephant Hill, at […]
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Life is interesting with it’s twists and turns,; as everyone of us at some time learns. A few short years ago, what i am doing now would not even have qualified as a dream; wild or otherwise. I had what i considered as my occupation; and I played golf. That was my life. Easy. Comfortable […]
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A life-time ago, Nyandarua was home. Then greener pastures beckoned, Nairobi was the place to be, for everybody who desired to be somebody. Then as now the rural places were grossly ‘poor’ in the contemporary definition of wealth. Ambitious folks would live here at the risk of atrophying. Luckily the lights of Nairobi shine bright […]
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