A visit at Kagumo Teachers Training College in Nyeri

Othaya CDF tournament held on April 19, 2015 in Othaya.

Easter brings a good market tide in Nyeri

Easter holiday is bringing good times for food merchants in Nyeri as they intentionally lure diners with an array of delicacies moderately spiced up to sneak in a taste of modernity while maintaining heritage.

Inside a local hotel

Chefs are nowadays at liberty of displaying their expertise in adjusting their culinary prowess to welcome and satisfy the visitors and many children on holiday but more importantly to make all feel at home.

A local food and beverages manager from one of the major hotels in Nyeri disclosed that menus have been reviewed to cater for the rising domestic market.

The kitchen rules in many restaurants are usually amended to almost match with those of home cooking but with professional mix of ingredients.

Roasting chicken

The menus are usually kept away and services extended outside the premises especially for those restaurants with vast compounds just to create a feeling of garden party.

The aroma of barbecued meat locally known as ‘nyama choma’ from local meat places sparingly sprinkled salt and spices with Rosemary herb twigs dominates the atmosphere and for avoidance of doubts, nothing goes to waste from a goat.

A garden party set up at the Golden Gates hotel

Chefs creatively make all sort of products including chopped meat on sticks, meat samomas and minced meatballs. 

Boiled minced meat tucked in offals.

Traditional cuisine from the common staple ingredients are also in plenty are this  season not forgetting delicious traditional beverages like porridge made from finger millet or fermented sifted sorghum flour. As a matter of fact, some cafes’ in the town are exclusively serving traditional diets.

A variety of fruits.

To the local farmers, the season brings a good market tide as everyone shop for fresh produce either from the markets or directly from the farms. 

The Giraffe Ark

 By Joe Kanyi

    Thirsty Thursday: The Throwback Edition

                            @ The White Rhino Hotel

There is no better way to usher in the Easter weekend than to be somewhere enjoying your favourite old school hits professionally mixed by a cool DJ. No more guess work, the White Rhino hotel will be throwing a special evening dubbed ‘Thirsty Thursday The Throwback Edition’ featuring Nyeri finest DJ Kay-V.

The White Rhino will be out to spoil and impress with its unbeatable rates on drinks and yummy bitings throughout the night and as if that is not enough, whiskeys will be sold at discounted rates. The night coincides with our traditional pizza night where you buy one pizza and you get one free. How delicious can that be?

During the commercial breaks, our top hosts Lord Gichohi and Miss Foxy will be making necessary noises and really this will be the time to request your number. All this will be happening at our spacious Kifaru Club where comfort meets style with no entrance charge.

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                                            THE NEW NYERI

New business centres in Nyeri

Nyeri CBD

The western side of Nyeri CBD.

Banking and education centres in Nyeri

An upcoming business centre in Nyeri town.

Nyeri town; the green home

An aerial view of Nyeri town.

 

The serene green environment complemented by its naturally purified air makes Nyeri town a preferred destination for many domestic and international visitors. The upcountry atmosphere, well maintained by its friendly and peaceful people has made the town an all-season favorite getaway and holiday destination.
The town's architectural timeline dates back to early 1900s and is a perfect blend of Italian, Asian, British styles with modern glass-walled business centers rising in the virgin skyline. From all the corners, infrastructural growth is luxuriant with many investors bidding for space to develop the town.
In maintenance with the rich heritage, some of the old buildings have been gazetted by the National Museums of Kenya to protect their original style. The Ruring'u museums, Pax tu- the last home of scouts movement founder Lord Powel, the White Rhino, Osman Allu buildings are just but some of the historical and tourist attractions.

Kanisa road in Nyeri town.

The town boasts of a range of middle and high-class hotels and restaurants that are evenly spread and serving not only local delicacies but even a variety of international cuisines to make everyone feel at home. One of its unrivaled advantages is that it is from the surrounding farms making freshness and quality the least of concerns of the local food places.

At Green Hills hotel

 
One will enjoy the distinctive coffee aroma naturally found in the town, either from local cafes and restaurants, or during a romantic walk down the street.

The distinctively natural Coffee aroma in the town not only oozes from the local cafes' and restaurants' coffee makers but also from surrounding coffee plantations as it is being harvested or milled. One can very well just enjoy the experience during a morning jog or a romantic evening walk.

Our Lady of Consolata Catholic cathedral in Nyeri town which was built in 1950.

For those seeking quieter environment, Nyeri town has an array of exclusive guest houses with unbeatable prices that are strategically situated just to offer a sense of being away.  In addition, for those who would like to enjoy a mountainous breeze as they enjoy their meals there are a number of open garden party settings just within the town.
Nyeri town has three major fresh produce markets found inside the town and encircled with ample parking lots for shoppers. For customers who do not have private means of transport, the matatu stage is just a walking distance from all the markets.

A view of Central hotel at night

Being in the highlands, Nyeri town has a conducive climate that is ideal for maintaining attractive flower gardens and lawns making the town attractive and eye-catching. Not forgetting patches of manmade and natural forests that offer suitable sites for nature trails and bush dinners. Bird watchers and nature photographers are for choice of shots when in some of the places.

A view of Nyeri town from Nyeri Hill.

Evidently Nyeri town is on the fast lane of development as top shopping supermarkets and malls are stepping their feet in the Nyeri, which has a population of about 50,000 people.
The town is well accessible by a network of tarmac roads from all directions. To the south-west is the main Nyeri-Nairobi highway that flow to join the opposite side to Nyeri-Nyahururu and Nyeri-Nanyuki highways. Traffic jam has never been a problem in the town and so is the parking even around the major shopping areas.

A section of Nyeri-Nanyuki highway.

For the first timers in the town, there are places that are a must-visit sites; the St Peter's cemetery where the World Scouting movement founder the Lord Baden Powel and his wife Olave are , Outspan hotel which was the home of Eric Sherbrooke Walker and the last home of the late Baden Powel, Our Lady of Consolata Catholic Cathedral which was constructed in 1950s by Italians, the White Rhino Hotel, the colonial bridge of Muringato and Ruring'u museums. 

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CAREER EXPO IN NYERI

The County Government of Nyeri, in collaboration with County Investors Exhibitions and NuruPe Events and P.R have organized the Nyeri County Education Expo.

The expo is set to take place from 26^th-28^th March, 2015 at Kamukunji Grounds in Nyeri town.

This forum is a first of its kind in Nyeri, and will bring together universities, colleges and training stakeholders to display their products and services for a period of three days.

The expo comes at a timely period; after the release of the 2014 KCSE results when candidates and their parents will be looking at what options they have when it comes to higher education. It also targets youth and young professionals, who may be looking to advance their studies.

It is free of charge for all attendants.

The expo is a huge milestone in Nyeri County, and is set to boost the confidence of the education and training sector in the county.

The main objective of the expo is to provide a forum where students and parents get information about several different colleges at once. It also seeks to provide the young people with career guidance opportunities.

About 15,000 students sat their KCSE last year from Nyeri County alone. The Nyeri County Education Expo will therefore provide a ready market for tertiary institutions through these candidates and their parents. .

For further enquiry about exhibition space, you can contact us on 0726-922574/ 0726-060201, or write to us on Nurupeeventspr@gmail.com