A Stellar Woman's World

From my previous posts, ( This one especially ) you'll notice that I have a thing for the outdoors. Outdoors and I go way back, our love keeps getting deeper and more real. I actually set goals to go for adventures in a year, that's how serious this love is to me. In 2021 the plan is to do a major hike/adventure every two months. Elephant Hill was the first of many to come and boy, do I have a story to tell?!  Preparations | My first trip to the Aberdare: It just occurred to me as I'm writing this that in high school our dorms had mountain names. We had Elgon, Kilimanjaro, Kenya and Aberdare dorms and I was a proud Aberdarian. They probably had a vision that I'd one day hike it and saw it best to put me there 😎.  After successfully hiking Mt. Longonot last year we opted for a more challenging hike and settled on Rurimeria. Now, when we went to Longonot the weather was really good to us we only complained about the dust while going round the crater. It was only right fo...

I was part of a group that recently went to The Masai Mara National Reserve and I have nothing but great memories from the short trip; to be cherished for as long as I live. Our hopes, just like any other person visiting the Mara, was to witness the great wildebeest migration and spot as many animals as we could. Unfortunately, our timing wasn't right, but we had fun regardless. We learnt that the best times to see the migration; a world class wonder largely driven by the rains, are between December & March or between May & November. This however fluctuates from time to time owing to the unpredictability of the rains - so it's safe to say that it's got no fixed schedule. I made a short video of my forever cherished experience and posted it on my Youtube page, just hours back. Check it out HERE and lemme know whatchu think. I hope it inspires you, wakes up that adventurous side of you, makes you smile - and well, have you plan a trip there, because why not?! 😜😎 Ev...

Let me tell you Maina, we went hiking the other day and came back different people. There's no way you can go up there and come back whole; the old you is taken (to Valhalla probably) and the new you comes downhill to Kattegat (If you know, you know). A group of us set out to explore Kenya recently and have nothing but good memories to treasure from our adventure. Rurimeria Hills forms one of the towering peaks of the Aberdare Ranges and stands at approx 3,860 meters above sea level. It is the third tallest hill after Mounts Satima and Kinangop. Unlike other hikes I've been to that start with a long trek followed by a steep climb, this didn't even give us a heads up - the steep climb was first, followed by the not so long trek on level grounds towards the summit.  Going up the hill was fun and quite easy especially for the few of us who'd previously made efforts to make working out a lifestyle. What about going downhill you ask? My friend, it bite itself each other like...

The morning of March 7, 2020 had me stoked to the core! I decided to join a group of hikers on a long awaited trip to Nakuru - one of the richest Kenyan counties when talking tourist attraction sites including but not limited to national parks, lakes - both fresh & salty, presence of hundreds of bird species, pre-historic sites and the immense Menengai Crater, to name but a few. My body, in its entirety - soul & spirit, picks up an almost out-of-body vibe anytime I get a chance to do anything involving nature. I have a thing for trees and a cool breeze, give me that over anything - anyday! Here's how the day panned out. We left the capital an hour late and unfortunately got caught up in traffic just before we got to the Great Rift Valley viewpoint - to pay homage to the gods of the land; the one unspoken ritual travellers are known to perform on that spot just before proceeding to their destination. You cannot just drive past that place without feeling drawn towards th...