Author - Mkay

Hellooo World! This is Maria Kamau (MK or Mkay in short), an avid traveller who's been to over 60 countries across Africa, Asia, America and Europe in the course of work and play. My homeland is Kenya, where I've travelled across 46 out of 47 counties that make up the vast and beautiful country.

If you love travel, bodacious adventures or just curious about this huge and mysterious world, read on please...

The experiences shared here will embolden you to travel more, and affirm that it's possible to galivant around the globe even on an African passport!

One day in Doha

One of the seven Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Qatar is a tiny Peninsula neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Middle East. While it is the second smallest in size after Bahrain...

Jebel Kujur, Bewitched for Hiking

Of the many things you may have heard about South Sudan, it is unlikely that hiking as a pastime would be one of them! And with good reason. It is the newest country in the world since 2011, when it...

Trois Mamelles, Mauritius

Discovering one of the lesser known secrets on Mauritius” Ancient, enigmatic and beautifully exotic, Mauritius is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. While it is part of the...

Traveling back in Time to Stonehenge, UK

I’m part of generation BBC (Born Before Computers) – and proudly so, I must add! And it fascinates me how much technology has changed and taken over our everyday life. Do you remember (waaaay...

Arc de Triumph, Paris

Standing across from Arc de Triumph I bid farewell to my gracious hostess and friend, Catherine, as she stepped out of her disembarking station shouting, “Enjoy!” It was Day2 of my vacation in Paris...

Laotians gifted Hope via COPE

Travel is enlightenment and sobering. One of the many ‘things-to-do’ in Vientiane, the capital of Laos (Northern neighbour of Thailand) is to visit the COPE. An acronym for Cooperative Orthotic and...

3 Travel Tips for Peace of Mind

What do you do if you are travelling abroad and ‘life happens’? Such as: no access to wifi or ‘free-access’ is not working unexpected rain storm documents are lost to theft or...