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Twenty reasons to visit Nairobi
For Karen Blixen fans, a visit to her former home can feel like a pilgrimage.
For Karen Blixen fans, a visit to her former home can feel like a pilgrimage.
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Giraffes on the horizon, critters in the bathroom: it's easy to go wild in this Kenyan wildlife sanctuary.
This massive wildlife park has forest, rainforest, savannah, dry desert, mountain moorland and swamp where wildlife roams freely.
Partnerships between wildlife conservancies and Kenyans are proving to be lifesavers for animals and people alike.
At a boutique hotel on the outskirts of Nairobi, a former mansion turned giraffe sanctuary turned tourist attraction you can breakfast with unusual some characters.
It's a spellbinding scene, ancient, almost Biblical. "We've been here doing this since time began," says one of the tribe's junior elders, Malakai, looking on.
Travelling to Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve, Dilvin Yasa pops by a local village and discovers the human need to throttle forward can have serious implications for those whose traditions are steeped in history.
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Nowhere else would you observe the sun as a gigantic ball of burnt orange as it dips into the horizon, turning the sky a brilliant purple pink, illuminating the silhouettes of exotic wildlife as they pass through the desert landscape. There's the famous wildebeest migration, pink flamingos in blue lakes, colourful tribespeople, snow-capped mountains and white-sand beaches.