Saturday, January 14, 2012

Everything they serve is either warm or cold smoked trout!

By Gareth Roberts


We spent a night in Nanyuki, to write a favorable review of the Trout Tree Restaurant, Nanyuki, in the Mount Kenya region of Kenya.

The Trout Tree is a world away. A stunning tree house built above a river and a series of trout tanks, set off the well trodden route and definitely worth a visit.

Service is quick and the food, though easy was delicious. The menu was restricted in that everything they serve is warm or cold smoked trout, trout chowder or trout slices.

The cold smoked trout is presented with savory horseradish sauce and the trout slices have a hot sauce. Griddled Trout was my choice on the main courses - the trout comes fresh from the ponds below the fish was very well cooked and really fresh.

Whilst we were at the Trout Tree Restaurant, the gift shop staff kindly told us about the new Lily Pond Arts Centre on the equator in Nanyuki.

The workers at Trout Tree were adamant that we paid a visit to the gigantic art gallery, as it displays reasonable modern art from East Africa's top modern artists, away from the bustle of city life.

You can decide to either absorb the atmosphere of this serene and special African arts place, or meet the "Artists in Residence". The Art Studio homes art graduates from art colleges in Nairobi, Kenya who are on full-time, long-term placements at the arts center, making and displaying new affordable art works.

This new art studio in Nanyuki, intends to operate as a springboard for young artists to launch their art careers, while allowing safari visitors to buy original pieces of art.

We also enjoyed a healthy lunch on a deck, overlooking a large lily pool.

With the great Mount Kenya Mountain as a background, we also enjoyed watching the white egret, hunting the frogs in the pool!

What we found dazzling is that the equator slices clean through the middle of this Arts Centre. This means that you can view provoking African art in both the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere!

This new Arts Centre in Nanyuki, has just installed a new equator sculpture, the Wish World, which is installed precisely at 0000000. Everybody writes down their wishes and then hangs them onto the "Wish Globe".

The arts centre has a completely unique shop stocked with hand- crafted African gifts such as beaded sandals, recycled flip flop toys, African masks, Glass chimes, Kenyan metal geckos and many more surprising African present ideas. That was the majority of our holiday cash gone!




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