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Samburu National Reserve Safari

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Samburu National Reserve
October 17-20 (3 nights)
Situated about 300 km north east of Nairobi this wilderness area has beautiful scenery. The main road is also excellent tarmac. There are three parks here – Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserve. We shall visit all three of them. The unusual animals of this park are the reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich and beisa oryx. There should be plenty of elephants.
This is the area where the Adamsons established their base. We shall visit one of their houses and see where the lions were kept locked. We shall also visit Joy’s Camp where she met her end. There will be a 40-minute talk on the life and works of Joy Adamson and a visit to a spectacular crater beyond Shaba.
We shall stay at the lovely Samburu Simba lodge. Set along the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River it overlooks the Buffalo Springs plains.
This is a holiday weekend and if you really want to go book and pay now.

Cost: 22,850ksh pp sharing. Triple rooms available.
Included: 2 days FB and 1 day HB
Not included: Park entry and transport
Payment: Mpesa Paybill: 400800, Followed by Account No. 657 157 0019

Book: 0724 255 299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

 

Polish Drama Film, Ida – Saturday 26 September, Nairobi National Museum

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Ida – 2013 Polish Drama Film
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Saturday 26 September 2015, 4 pm
Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum

Set in Poland in 1962, a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, she must now meet her aunt. Her aunt, the former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative, tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their family.
Called a “compact masterpiece” and an “eerily beautiful road movie”, the film has also been said to “contain a cosmos of guilt, violence and pain”, even if certain historical events (German occupation of Poland, the Holocaust and Stalinism) remain unsaid.

Ida won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Polish film to do so. Selected as Best Film of 2014 by the European Film Academy and as Best Film Not in the English Language of 2014 by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

Well-known Polish director and producer, Joanna Kos-Krauze, will introduce the film on behalf of the film’s director, giving some insights on filming techniques he used. Kos-Krauze will respond to questions after the film.
Refreshments & tickets on sale at 3.15 pm
Doors open at 3.50 pm – film at 4:00 pm
Donation: Ksh 400 KMS member Ksh 500 Guest
MPESA no: 400800 Account no: 6571570019

RSVP: 0724 255299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

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