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Holiday flights are pouring into Zanzibar
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Scrubbing the turtle’s carapace with a soapy nail brush, conservation officer Moses William mimics a cleaning regime typically performed by reef fish in the Indian Ocean. A small crowd of Russian tourists has gathered to watch the exercise conducted bi-weekly with each of the 25 turtles currently cared for at Mnarani Marine Turtle Conservation Lagoon in Zanzibar.
After a few minutes, once the novelty has worn off, the disinterested troop march over to a jetty. By-passing information boards detailing the story of the sanctuary and the important role it plays in protecting several chelonian species, they strip down to bikinis and swimming shorts.
Why you should become a Kenya Museum Society member
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The Kenya Museum Society (KMS) is a non-profit organization set up in 1970 to support and promote the National Museums of Kenya.
Visitors and citizens alike are encouraged to get the KMS membership. By being a member of KMS, you are helping to preserve and promote Kenyan history, culture and artifacts, while having fun at activities and events in the company of people who enjoy the same interests as you.
KMS members are entitled to free entry to all national and regional Museums, prehistoric sites and monuments around Kenya.
The National Museum of Kenya (NMK) is the custodian of Kenya’s natural and cultural heritage that manages three World Heritage Sites, twenty-one museums and over two hundred sites and monuments across the country.
The church bells of Kilifi that need special training to ring
The bells at the St Thomas ACK Church, Kilifi. [Photo: Courtesy]
You would hardly combine the words extensive training with bell ringing, but that is exactly what a church in Kilifi has to do to keep its ancient bells tolling.
In our school days, bell ringing was simple; schools had either a handheld bell the nominated bell ringer swang, or an old, wheel rim positioned in a vehicle that was rang by being hit. Pretty basic. A few had more advanced versions where all a bell ringer had to do was press switch. Not so the bells of Kilifi’s St Thomas ACK Church, where bell ringers have to be specially trained to ring the six bells, the latest bell ringers having just got back from a two-week training programme in the UK.