Louisville Waterfront Park in Kentucky - A Great Vacation and Travel Destination

By Robert Benjamin

The Louisville Waterfront Park in Kentucky is a beautiful patch of green in a very urban atmosphere. The park is located in an area where there are a lot of scrap yards, sand and gravel plants, old rail beds, petroleum and asphalt terminals, and an interstate highway that makes it practically impossible to publicly access the river. The Waterfront Park worked to connect the city and the river again and it has returned to a beautiful place where the community can gather and enjoy a beautiful space. The park offers a 12 acre Great Lawn that slopes smoothly down to the river and it is a great place for families to get together and picnic, play, or do anything else. The Lawn is also a fun gathering place to watch fireworks, play football games, listen to concerts, fly a kite, or just hanging out with friends catching some rays and listening to the river gurgle by.

The Belle of Louisville steamboat lives permanently at the wharf and it also has enough space for visiting riverboats and other boaters in and out of the area. At the festival plaza there are water hook ups and built in utilities so it is easy for festivals, fairs, concerts, and other fun activities. There are even pools of water that run down to the river and water cannons that shoot to the pools. There is a fountain at the entry called Dancing Waters that is a lot of fun to jump in on a hot day to cool off. There is a great place for kids to play including picnic areas, hills and meadows, and even tree groves.

Waterfront Park has a second phase that will consist of 30 acres and is currently under construction. When it is completed it will offer residents and tourists and even bigger oasis in the middle of the concrete jungle. If you happen to be in Kentucky in the Louisville area and want a great day of fun and relaxation that doesn't cost a lot then you should definitely check out the Louisville Waterfront Park.

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By Robert W. Benjamin

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Kenya Africa Safari Holiday-Top African Destination Kenya Fact

By Robert Muhoho

Why Visit Kenya Africa

Magnificent Kenya wildlife

See the big five (lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo, and leopard) along with graceful giraffe, and herds of zebra and gazelle in their spectacular natural setting-conservation issues take on new meaning.

Amazing Kenyan Landscape

From the snows of Mts. Kenya and Kilimanjaro to the great Rift Valley with its string of unusual lakes, from open savannah with no apparent horizon to mountain ranges with strange inselbergs and mesas; from plantation of coffee, tea, and coconut palms to tropical gardens lush-green and brilliant with flowers and colorful birds.
Beautiful Kenyan Rift Valley Lakes

Lake Victoria, almost an inland sea; lakes ranging from emerald green to flamingo pink; lakes with land and water birds galore…an ornithological heaven. tropical coastline.

Miles of white sandy beaches, waving palms, and coral reefs bright with exotic fish. Big game fishing, windsurfing, snorkeling, kite surfing in Mombasa Kenya coast.

Strong ethnic traditions-Kenya culture & Kenya people

You have many choices; highlands ranches, some dating back to first European settlements; relaxed and spacious coastal resorts; historic hotels such as the Norfolk , the Aberdares county Club, and the Mt. Kenya Safari Club. You will love the traditional Kenyan welcome- a big smile and a tropical drink.

Kenya Weather-rains, sun and climate in Kenya

Generally sunny and warm, with occasional showers-practically perfect vacation weather, amazing blue skies with an astonishment of clouds, and right on the Equator.

Kenya Food-Kenyan staple & traditional cuisine

Tropical fruits, highland vegetables, fresh beef and lamb, freshwater Nile perch and high land trout, every kind of seafood (try the Swahili preparations), wine and spirits from local vineyards, Europe and South Africa.

Kenya Handicrafts, some fine, some useful, some amusing

Wood and soapstone carvings, handwoven fabrics, gemstones (especially tsavorite and tanzanite), ethnic and modern jewelry, leatherwork, embossed chests and mirrors, hand woven carpets, baskets.

Kenya Pre-History age and sites

The Leakey family and others study early man in 5 million year chunks of time-see the Turkana boy (5 million years young) in the Nairobi Museum.

There is something about Kenya-perhaps it truly is the birthplace of mankind, and we all feel a returning, that the land is not unknown to us.

Kenya is also renowned for its sight seeing opportunities like the viewing of the Great Rift Valley floor from atop an escarpment. There are several stops and viewing platforms on the Nairobi-Nakuru High way where tourists will look don into the vast valley floor. It’s an amazing sight with contrasting straw colored ground below merging with the clear blue skies in the horizon hemmed in by serrated edges of the rift valley floor volcanic mountains, bluffs and knuckle shaped hills.

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