Escape to Mombasa & Time for Reflection on our Diani Beach Stay

Monkeys in Mombasa, Kenya. Escape to Mombasa & Time for Reflection on our Diani Beach Stay. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

We’d only been back at our cottage at Shambani at Diani Beach from our safari for a day when the Internet ground to a halt. It had been operating at a snail’s pace since we arrived almost two weeks earlier and we’d been constantly shifting between the Internet line installed at the property the day we arrived … Read more

Tree Planting at Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary

Tree planting ceremony at Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Tsavo West National Park, Kenya. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

It was difficult on our final morning at Salt Lick to drag ourselves away from the non-stop animal entertainment we’d been enjoying the last couple of days from the window of our room and the verandas of the game lodge. But Oliver, our guide, was determined to take us to see the lions we’d got … Read more

A Cultural Visit to Msorongo Village, Kenya

A Cultural Visit to Msorongo Village, a half hour drive from Salt Lick, a Sarova game lodge located in Tsavo West, Kenya. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

“This is the graveyard of a young woman, eight months pregnant, who was killed by an elephant,” 55-year old Jane Mwamburi of Msorongo Village, Kenya, tells us through our guide and interpreter, Oliver. There are actually two graveyards, because the Taita people do not believe in burying a pregnant woman with her baby, Oliver reveals, … Read more

Learning Swahili from the Locals

Tribesmen of a Maasai village close to the Sarova Mara in the Masai Mara, Kenya. Learning Swahili from the Locals. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Learning Swahili from the locals in the Masai Mara was part of the Kenya experience. Every person we met made an effort to teach us a word or two. Imagine how much better we’d all communicate if that enthusiasm for sharing language was global. “Jambo! (hello!),” the security guy cheerfully calls out to us as … Read more

Sundowners at Salt Lick

Sundowners at Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, Tsavo West, Kenya. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Sparkling wine served by a smiling waiter at a silent hilltop location in the middle of nowhere. Three lively musicians making hypnotic music – just for us. A spread of tasty snacks of samosas and other spicy treats. Cool, crisp mountain air. A slight breeze. The outline of Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance. A sublime … Read more