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- Mar 3, 2024
- ☁️ 33 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- KenyaKilifiUyombo3°23’10” S 39°58’19” E
Kaleidoskop Festival @ Watamu
March 3 in Kenya ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
My travel plans 🗺️ led me to Watamu for the beginning of March and the Kaleidoskop Festival (https://www.kaleidoscope.wtf) was scheduled for that same time. Usually, I am not one of these crazy 🤪 festival goers, but since the time coincided and I was curious what an electro festival in Kenya would look like, it thought that I might as well go.
As I found out later, the festival was held for the fifth time and at least this year the Temple Point resort in Watamu had been chosen as venue for the event. 🏨 Staying directly at the resort would have been too expensive for me. Instead, I got a good apartment close by in turtle bay for only 3600 KES (approximately 22 EUR) / night. I moved in a day before the festival and that was probably my luck 🍀 because it turned out that the apartment was listed on two websites and was double booked due to the high demand during the festival. Since I was already staying there, the other person had some bad luck. 😕
The apartment actually had two bed rooms. So at the beginning, there was even the question if that other person could move in 😳 Eventually the person must have found something else since I didn’t hear anything about that anymore. 😅
On the first day, I went to the festival in the early evening hours. The place filled up slowly but surely. I went to the festival by myself and I didn’t knew anyone there. I only talked to a few people about some superficial stuff and was most of the time on my own. 🙄I visited all 4 stages though: curiosity, life, nature and time. On all nights I liked the performances of the DJs on the time stage the most. 😌
From security control at the entrance to signs and timetables at the location as well as cashless payments - the event was well organised. I put almost the same amount as the ticket price for the festival as debit on my wristband for cashless payments and had no issues to spend the money. 😅 The resort was definitely oriented towards European standards for the prices of food and drinks. For example, I got two craft beer 🍺 , some king prawns 🍤 as dinner and a Cuba Libre 🍹for a third of my total budget on my first night.
On the second day I went a little earlier (around 2 pm) to the festival since I wanted to experience the resort and its pool 🏊 during the day a bit. When I arrived it was still pretty quiet. As planned, I jumped into the pool and later attended a „Mindful Movement & Meditation workshop“ 🧘 with Muse (from the US) and Ralph (from the Dominican Republic) - the instructors for the workshop. This is also where I met Patrick (from Mexico) amongst many others attendees. He was working for the UN 🇺🇳 in Nairobi. Apparently, the United Nations Environment Assembly took place in the week before and many of his colleagues were to join.
On the third and last day, I met most of the people on the festival again and we had a good time. 🥳 I never made it to the sunrise like other though but it was still an interesting event filled with a lot of new engaging music from African DJs as well as a thoughtfully decorated venue (see https://www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopefestivalw… for more impressions).
I spent yet a few days before and after the festival in Malindi and Watamu but this is a story for another blog post. 😌Read more
Traveler 😲👍👍
Traveler Looks nice, but the water was actually quite warm and also salty 😅
Traveler ✌️👍nice music!!