Take environmental education from the Kenyan community
Take environmental education from the Kenyan community
Visit the Kenyan ecotourism site that is decorated for you using the upcycled crafts
Plover Homestay situated in Nyandarua County belongs to a local Kenyan family settled in a colonial house. The house is surrounded by artworks made out of waste. It is a favorite place for birders who come to see Sharpes Longclaw. The house has a fruit orchard, tree nursery, biogas units in its surrounding that are visited by school students for environmental education. Local guides, known as Ecopreneurs take the visitors around sustainable organic agriculture, community museum, other colonial houses, and arrange cultural programs. Visit Mau Mau Cave which was used as a hide-out by Kenyan freedom fighters from 1952 to 1960.
It is a homestay that offers very basic accommodation but enriches the guest’s visits with multiple activities.
Guests like to eat our Ladakhi food. They say it is delicious, even when it is prepared by an elderly ama (mother) like me. I always make sure I serve them the cleanest and healthiest food. My husband is a copper artist. When guests leave us, they say ‘Julley’, and hug us. It makes us feel happy.
I became a Mountain Homestay Host in 2018, and I have hosted many travellers since then. Running a homestay has helped me and my family a lot. Not only is the solar set up in our house useful for us, but even travellers prefer to stay in our homestay because of it.
The training we got in astronomy turned out to be a life-changing experience for our village. I felt happy and proud while mapping the position of the planets and sharing the secrets of the universe with the tourists. Tourists told me that even they didn’t know so much about the dark skies!
