NameKelvin
Area CoveredKenya
InterestsEcotourism, Nature & wildlife, Safari

Introducing Kelvin - your Friend at the other End!

About Me

I was born and raised in a village on the outskirts of Mombasa in 1969. I attended high school there, before going on to build my career. Since then, I have done professional training in the areas of travel, leisure, health and sports. For the last 17 years, I have worked in the tourism sector as a Travel Consultant and as a professional ornithological guide.I also double as a resident Naturalist for a local Nature Sanctuary (Nguuni Nature Sanctuary) owned by La Farge. My work involves taking care of visitors around the sanctuary, monitoring bird species and updating the checklist, besides running the bird club for young ornithologists.
On the family side, I am married with two lovely grown-up kids (a boy and a girl). Over the years, I have travelled around east Africa, mostly on safari with tourists and occasionally with the Natural History Society, of which I am a member and in charge of logistics.  I love safaris, especially in the Masai Mara and Amboseli National Parks.
The Kenyan coast is already a well-developed tourist resort city. It is a melting point of harmony and rich heritage, and a truly healthy atmosphere with its miles of forest cover and clean rivers draining into the blue waters of the Indian Ocean - where the beaches are superb! I hope to welcome you all to the magical Kenya!!

Some unique local experiences I can help you plan:

1. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to swim with Dolphins in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, Kenya
2. Dream personal Safari to see the King of the african jungle; the Lions of the african savanna, Kenya
3. Trip to a traditional African Village with options for overnight homestay and sampling African food and dance, Kenya
4. A night tour to sample Kenyan city life
5. Climb Mt.Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest snow caped mountain

Ask me about these experiences and anything else about my area, I'd love to help you plan your trip!

Rough Guides Rough Guides Introduction to Kenya

Stretched across the equator, with the peaks of Mount Kenya - the second highest mountain in Africa - rising out of a natural environment of exceptional beauty, Kenya is a hugely rewarding place to travel. The country's dramatically diverse geography has resulted in a great range of natural habitats, harbouring a stunning variety of mammals and birds, while its history of migration and conquest has brought about a complex social panorama, which includes the Swahili city-states of the coast and the nomadic pastoralists of the Rift Valley. The world-famous national parks, unselfconsciously colourful peoples and superb beaches lend the country a genuinely exotic image with magnetic appeal.

But treating Kenya as a succession of tourist sights isn't the most stimulating way of experiencing the country. Travelling with your eyes open, you can enter the very different world inhabited by most Kenyans: a ceaselessly active landscape of farm and field, of streams and bush paths, of wooden and corrugated-iron shacks, tea shops and lodging houses, of crammed buses and pick-up vans, of overloaded bicycles, and of streets wandered by goats, chickens and toddlers. Off the more heavily trodden tourist routes, you'll find real warmth, openness and curiosity towards visitors. And out in the wilds, there is an abundance of superb scenery - vistas of rolling savanna dotted with Maasai and their herds, high Kikuyu moorlands, dense forests bursting with bird song and insect noise, and stony, shimmering desert - all of which comes crisply into focus when experienced in the context of an economically beleaguered African nation riven by deep social tensions.

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