Our Kenyan Cottage by the Lake in Thika 🇰🇪

Located in a private estate in Thika just an hour away from Nairobi, Mugumo Cottage is a true oasis, perfect for a weekend getaway with friends or family!
This massive cottage is lakeside with three bedrooms accommodating up to six people, with a full kitchen, a large living room and more outdoor space then you will ever need. It is also dog friendly so we brought Stich with us!
Website: www.airbnb.ca/rooms/34266240?...
14 Falls of Thika
After Googling "What to do in Thika", one thing kept popping up on every website, the Fourteen Falls. After driving about 50 minutes from Mugumo Cottage, we made it to the falls. Many have told us that this place is heavily populated and after looking at the color of the water, those people are probably right. But let's all agree that this place is stunning and hopefully by bringing attention to it maybe people will start taking action. Otherwise, it was a pleasure to spend some time with our two favorite locals, John and Maurice!
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Thika
0:47 Mugumo Cottage Tour
3:28 Mexican Night
4:40 Reaching 100k Subscriber THANK YOU
5:22 Morning at the Cottage
5:44 Fourteen Falls in Thika
11:00 Quick Stop at Ananas Mall
11:43 Afternoon at the Cottage
12:32 What a Fun Weekend
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[@DaveMani]

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[@robertmuiruri550]

Kenya is the best country

[@DaveMani]

Its great for sure :)

[@africanqueen4768]

Not me Watching Dave feel Safe in another mans hands🤭🤭This how the world should be.They are so kind and the video brings cool vibes.

[@DaveMani]

Hahaha

[@doctorharry]

In the building watching from Barbados 😎😎😎

[@DaveMani]

Thanks dude.

[@blochspin]

"Tracy is not the most adventurous person". That has to be the biggest understatement of all time. A Nova Scotia girl that gave it all up to go on an adventure with you to Africa and takes part in all your activities! Apologies are in order :) BTW, I still don't understand why you are only at 100K subscribers. These videos and content is fantastic and are a different take to most of the content on the subject of travel to this part of the world. I think because you do not use sensational headlines to increase viewships. I would love to see more of your videos in other east african countries as you make your way southwards as well.,

[@DaveMani]

Haha well if you see it that way... I guess you're right! Thanks a lot Andrew :)

[@gertywilson1514]

Wow memories I last went to 14 falls when I was in high school…good school trip thanks again for showing Thika to us it’s been a minute 💕

[@DaveMani]

Its a cool place :)

[@sylviawambogo8079]

There's also Mt Kilimambogo (big hill on the right as you cruise along Thika Road outbound before the Thika-Garissa highway flyover). The hill is inside Oldonyo Sabuk National Park, a few kilometers from 14 falls. The best part is that you can opt to drive all the way to the summit if you don't feel like hiking 😊 the views up there are breathtaking!

[@DaveMani]

Never heard of that one. I will look it up :)

[@Moses.m]

Congratulations to the Manis for the 100000 subscribers.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Githinji_the1]

Congratulations on 100k. We truly love this channel.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@ronpeer7975]

Congrats on 100K that’s a great milestone. It’s great seing Stitching the video.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!

[@bridgetvictor4140]

Such a beautiful couple ❤

[@DaveMani]

wow thanks! :)

[@rosenduta2264]

I love the cottage

[@DaveMani]

It was beautiful ;)

[@jestymbunifu781]

I love this channel

[@DaveMani]

Thank you very much! :D

[@snippetsofvictoria]

Congrats on 100K!! Oh my gosh, I hope to meet Maurice someday. What a sweetheart, I'd feel safe crossing the water holding his hand too

[@DaveMani]

The guys were really good at it loll.

[@kylephillips5757]

Happpy to see you back on the road traveling ! looks amazing

[@DaveMani]

More to come!

[@mimi-dq3xc]

Beautiful cottage. A must visit. Congratulations on 100k 🥳🥳🥳

[@DaveMani]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@mouricewekesamunoko2839]

Awesome duo ❤

[@DaveMani]

Thanks 🔥

[@dolphineachonga555]

Congratulations on your new milestone. You deserve it 🎉. Fingers crossed for the one million mark.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!

[@hildeeliseeikenes]

I am happy to be one of your 100.000 followers!! 🎉 Congratulations!!

[@DaveMani]

Yay! Thank you!

[@leahmathaiya8884]

That is fourteen falls my home village am happy to see you there am your new subscriber bcs of that

[@DaveMani]

Welcome onboard. :)

[@sammytanui8993]

wow! how amazing..proudly kenyan

[@DaveMani]

Yeah

[@kangeyg6879]

At last you stayed at my home town ,great place to be

[@DaveMani]

It is :) ❤️

[@cyruswango7596]

Congratulations on achieving a 100K milestone. It's an incredible achievement and I'm wishing you both more success in the next chapter of your lives.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!

[@berinasnaturestories]

I have never heard of Mugumo cottage. The avocado is lovely, three months to go here, for the season. Congratulations to the 100 subscribers. The guides again are very kind. Oooooh Ananas is a coooool place.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much! 😬😬😬

[@stellakabura7171]

The cottage looks so beautiful 😍😍❤️

[@DaveMani]

It really is!

[@jannyk.788]

New Subscriber!! From Kenya Been to 14falls,I enjoyed the video 🔥

[@DaveMani]

Thanks for the sub!

[@maxwellmakenzi]

5:11 Awesome🙌👏🤙

[@DaveMani]

Thx

[@briankamau3267]

Amazing 💯

[@DaveMani]

Thanks 🔥

[@Isabella-wd6if]

That's entertaining with suspense watching you people cross the river on bare feet, and climbing a steep rock. Fantastic blog. Love it

[@DaveMani]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TheOriginalSpawn]

That’s a nice place:.. hope you guys had fun:..🔥💯👌🏽

[@DaveMani]

It was!

[@alexandermutune6131]

Amazing content.I love the way you completement each other. You will go far this way.And congratulations for hitting the magic number in subscribers-100K.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@saeedaosman3510]

Loved the cottage

[@DaveMani]

Its great for sure :)

[@dougie_main]

Congratulations Dave & Mani. I came with you from 19K. You've done so well

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!❤️❤️❤️

[@kimarudante]

Congratulations on 100k milestone.......❤❤

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@maxwellmakenzi]

A beautiful place.

[@DaveMani]

It really is!

[@bettygithua3124]

Congratulations guys. You deserve it.

[@DaveMani]

Thanks so much!

[@davejay8802]

That's my home town.... Welcome to Thika.. 💞

[@DaveMani]

So nice

[@nyambura1253]

You're slowly becoming Kenyans. The eggs, the complaining about entry fee, you're becoming a Kikuyu Dave. 😂😂 Congratulations on 101k subscribers!!

[@Isabella-wd6if]

True

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😂😂😂

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No more Mzungu price 😂😂

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Kabisa tena 😅😅🤣🤣🤣😀😀🤣😅🤣😀

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[@ladysafari01]

Congratulations on 101k! Ariririri 💃🏿 💃🏿 💃🏿 I have followed your journey since the 1st day you landed in Kenya and I was thinking 🤔 how brave are these 2 moving to a whole new world during the Covid-19 pandemic ? Well, you loved Kenya and it loved you back. Thank you for sharing your beautiful adventures and I'm definitely looking forward to experiencing some of the locations when I'm back home for a visit 😊 Yours truly; Your youtube Aunt.

[@DaveMani]

Wow thank you so so much! This means so much!

[@alexandermutune6131]

Wow.what a compliment to the Manis by Lady safari!

[@irenenanjy5351]

Beautiful 😍

[@DaveMani]

Thank you! 😊

[@dottoknowledge979]

More than a 100k ,finally! Congratulations guys, next objective: 1 million;)))

[@DaveMani]

Thank youuu Dottò! 😎👍🏼

[@mercychebet8705]

Appreciate the Latin music as y’all whipped up that burrito bowl 💃🏻

[@DaveMani]

Haha its the best! So festive. 👍🏼

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I am your biggest fan dear ones once again congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 😘

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much 😀

[@alamoodyfauzi9658]

Congratulations. Love to see those numbers rocketing through the skies. Tracy thank you for the guacamole. 😁

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!

[@kashgohel]

Beautiful cottage! I remember the last time I visited 14 falls was when I was doing my university project of designing a resort there. Glad to see it looks cleaner now. And for 300USD a night that cottage is a deal! Fun video. 😃

[@DaveMani]

Yeah especially for 6 people :)

[@marymutero7212]

Congratulations guys 👍👍

[@DaveMani]

Thanks so much

[@redempter1514]

Congratulations 🎉🎉 to the 100k subs once more..,all because of your relentless hard work and consistency.💖so happy for you both.cheers.

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so much!!

[@tommydondre]

Congrats on 100k 🥳

[@DaveMani]

Thank you!!

[@lizankatha4205]

cant believe you were at my backyard... I should wander around often...😏🤔congratulations on the milestone...was so caught up last year didn't watch youtube so for the last three weeks I have been watching this channel like a series...

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so so much!!!

[@lonelion8098]

Good to see you near my ancestral home thika is one the cheapest towns near nairobi

[@DaveMani]

It was a great weekend :)

[@fuckemjoint]

You asked and you received...congrats 100K +.......go visit the Blue Post Hotel in Thika...use to hang out there back in the late 70s ...they had a disco and we also loved drinking overlooking that natural water fall....boy do I need to get back in my now old age in the diaspora. Bye the bye happy to have seen that you did visit South Sudan per my suggestion...appologies it's taken me this long to thank you for the great content but at my age I once in a while get that major brain fart.

[@DaveMani]

Hey thank you so much and thanks also for the suggestion! :)

[@michaelbraddy7480]

O enjoyed your videos❤

[@DaveMani]

Thanks ❤️❤️❤️

[@maxwellmakenzi]

1:36 the open design without partioned walls looks great.

[@DaveMani]

I love open designs! The best if you ask me.

[@picsandvidstv1348]

And now I’m watching this video at 101k. Hurray! To be honest, I admire Tracy for that little adventure. Surprisingly, you guys took off your shoes! I was waiting to see you go in with them! 😂

[@DaveMani]

I didn't want wet shoes loll

[@JK-go4yf]

Congrats guys for the 100k subs.

[@DaveMani]

Thanks! 😃

[@Mashariki_0]

4:41 😂😂🍾🥂 Congratulations Tracey conquered Kili, I doubt regular phobias will phase her onwards ❤❤

[@DaveMani]

Yeah!!!

[@movingwheels26]

Always, thankful,you give us a good challenge to visit this good places in our country.

[@DaveMani]

Our pleasure! ❤️👍🏼😬

[@mitchellekumba]

Congratulations 👏 on 100k subscribe but u deserve more than that 🖤.. because your vids will fail to make me wanna visit the places u go to .. I really love how u guys find the best places to go by the end of this year u will reach at least 500 and more subscribes love u guys 💖💖...

[@DaveMani]

Thank you so so much!!

[@babieatiti7259]

Congratulations guys,we were here from the beginning,can't wait for you guys to start exploring more Kisumu city and Western country,the hidden gems there , Acacia,Ciala resort,wigot hotel(eating on top of a hill) rusinga island,lake victoria,kit mikai,takawiri island for the bad watchers,the only fresh water and white sandy beache in Kenya,kiboko and impala park,floating restaurant in dunga ,the list goes on.

[@DaveMani]

We 100% will. Its just the only place where no one has reached out to work with us yet loll.

[@babieatiti7259]

@@DaveMani oh no probably send them your requests haha and you never know an invite might be coming soon 🤗

[@khakibush]

Well done guys on 100k

[@DaveMani]

🎉

[@mrmachunteh1018]

Wow Thika my town..Team 237😁💥

[@DaveMani]

❤️❤️❤️

[@kichaa13]

The best soft serve is at sno cream in town. Worth a trip just for the 60s menu still painted on to the wall.

[@DaveMani]

Noted! :)

[@edwardonyaoking8173]

That cottage very excellent design is that Airbnb

[@DaveMani]

Yes, it is!

[@mwihakikuria]

So cool! I recommend Thompson’s falls In nyahururu

[@DaveMani]

We've been! Beautiful.

[@FF-Cooking]

Super 💞💖

[@DaveMani]

😊

[@joseky254]

Am that 100th K subscriber 😉😉 i deserve a glass of wine too. Cheers 🍻

[@DaveMani]

Yes you do! 😍👍🏼

[@faith6007]

🔥🔥🔥

[@DaveMani]

❤️

[@harpalgajera2875]

Nice 👍 cuntry kenya 🔥🔥

[@DaveMani]

Yeah :)

[@danaphx]

Congratulations on the 100 thousand plus Subscribers!!!! Really enjoyed this video and the housing is wonderful looking!! I have a few questions if you have the time to answer. 1) Is Stitch your dog? I thought I saw a dog at your house a while back. 2) So there are leech's in the waterfall area That would freak me out 😏 3) Why is water so foamy? It kind of reminds me of water in a hippo pool (yuck). Where does this water flow from upstream?

[@DaveMani]

1) he is our friend's dog but we see him a lot. 2) after the fact, we think they were "poop warms" due to the pollution 3) pollution

[@mariamwaura6096]

Try oldonyo sapuk resort at the foothills of Mt kilimambogo and congratulations to you👏

[@DaveMani]

Thank you for the suggestion.

[@mariamwaura6096]

​@@DaveMani welcome

[@bellaolum9768]

Interesting, I didn't know there was a lake in Thika

[@DaveMani]

Its a river I think.

[@jameskimani5414]

Nice

[@DaveMani]

Thanks

[@kelvinkibui9854]

Now road to 200k subs💯💥💥💥💥

[@DaveMani]

Let's GOOOOOOO

[@Fly_Jorge]

Now you gotta visit Kisumu city next....

[@DaveMani]

We will 👍🏼

[@josephkinyanjui-nr3gm]

Awesome adventure unfortunaly 14 falls is just a flowing sewage. The water is greenish and smelly. Something must be done about pollution.

[@DaveMani]

You are very right...

[@DennisTheNational]

How comes u have never gone to kisumu or western parts of Kenya at large or they have nothing to offer

[@DaveMani]

True we didn't BUT we will I swear!

[@alainehwamb5664]

1 month later 109k subscriptions 👏

[@DaveMani]

Let's gooo!!!

[@Ken_690]

I subbed😊

[@DaveMani]

Welcome onboard! :)

[@marynjambi6963]

💕

[@DaveMani]

:)

[@jessjemar5876]

Yall should do a meet n greet whenever you visit a new county or location I live in Thika and i'd have loved to meet you 🙈😅😅

[@DaveMani]

Im sure we will we are just so short on time with work and social media loll.

[@harpalgajera2875]

Welcome to India family Gujarat welcome India 💐💐💐💐

[@DaveMani]

Thank you! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@rosenduta2264]

Am addicted to airbnb and content

[@DaveMani]

Thanks :)

[@beenzuhimoonde2874]

You should visit Zambia 🇿🇲

[@DaveMani]

Im sure we will! :)

[@DaveMani]

Im sure we will! :)

[@nyashgerald3585]

Hello guy's Let's me take my🍿🍾and enjoy this video

[@DaveMani]

Yes please :)

[@rahimali3004]

They need to have white water rafting. Dave do you think that place is conducive for white water rafting?

[@DaveMani]

No, the fall is too high and does not have a way around.

[@MichJohnpaulZj]

Try also to come in the philippines . Its more fun in the philippines 😊 and cheaper also and more views to come in your channel ❤

[@DaveMani]

We would love to and will at some point for sure! 👍🏼

[@bernardngari9904]

Did you just do a Brad of Trailrecon between 5:50 and 5:53 😁😁😁?

[@DaveMani]

Not sure what that is lol! 🤣

[@vickymccann6789]

Please do budget options!

[@DaveMani]

We actually have a few. Check out our airbnb playlist

[@moviesync3131]

Temperature in and out? Shades are for the beach

[@DaveMani]

Shades are for when the sun is out! 😎

[@moviesync3131]

@@DaveMani not in these countries and the sooner y'all know that the less weird you'll look gracias

[@xi_ne]

from 3500 to 500..😂😂😂😂 congratulations you guys🤩

[@DaveMani]

Thanks haha :)

[@braydenlee7206]

I'm the 1st one here 😂

[@DaveMani]

Yeah! :)

[@maxwellmakenzi]

1:15 its massive.

[@DaveMani]

Yeah! Super big.

[@afriq911]

How’s that water Green

[@DaveMani]

Yeah... pollution...

[@maxwellmakenzi]

5:00😂😂

[@DaveMani]

:)

[@rosenduta2264]

99,000 subscriber am aiming big.

[@DaveMani]

Let's gooo! :)

[@rosenduta2264]

My cat is angry at me,i want time bonding

[@DaveMani]

Loll

[@kichaa13]

You moved to a jeep?

[@DaveMani]

Never loll My friend's car.

[@brianm5753]

Eggs kachumbari undefeated

[@DaveMani]

Delicious :)

[@codeinswahili9505]

I thought you were going to India

[@DaveMani]

We are in India right now. 🇮🇳

[@briankamau3267]

1

[@DaveMani]

Yeeeaaah!