TEA ON THE WILD SIDE
(Posted 23rd January 2015)
The Kenya Wildlife Services Club House at the Nairobi National Park will be the unusual setting this weekend for tea and coffee aficionados to meet and sample some unusual brands, according to a regular source in Kenya’s capital.
‘You know all about our challenges to market Kenya. We need to find novel ways to position ourselves as a destination. Yesterday we started the Nairobi Restaurant Week which will help us to highlight what wide range of cuisine is one offer in Kenya. Visitors from abroad, when they come to stay in their hotels, are told of this event and can sample from dozens of restaurants. Kenya got some of the best coffee and tea in the world and the event this weekend at the national park has a dual purpose. We promote the national park, which is unique in the world. Nowhere else in the world can you leave your downtown hotel and in the space of an hour, of course traffic permitting, enter a different world of lions, rhinos, zebras, giraffes. But we also promote our other two key exports, coffee and tea. I hope that the hotel concierges will push this event that foreign visitors can become aware of it. There is free WiFi in the club house. Guests can tweet and post Facebook messages and pictures. There is free transport into the park and the cost is just 300 Kenya Shillings for one day and 500 Shillings for both days entrance. This should be a great opportunity for Kenyans too because children up to 12 years are given free entrance. Please help us put this out there so that we get added publicity. Like some of the beach festivals in Diani for instance or other places along the coast, here we are trying something novel and reach out to a wider group’.
Apart from the partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service has the Nairobi Tented Camp come on board, as are Gamewatcher Safaris and RUPU Kenya, all joining hands to provide some great weekend fun in the wild just outside the centre of Nairobi.
Tea anyone, coffee perhaps or how about having a good look at the wildlife in between sips? Only in Nairobi!
