So we got to Nairobi. The city has more than three million inhabitants and its name comes from a water hole called in Maasai Enkare Nairobi – a place of cool water. The city was founded relatively recently in 1899 and it was a rail station between Mombasa and Kampala. As early as 1905 it became the capital of the British protectorate and a tourist destination as people used it as a starting point for safari and hunting. After gaining independence Nairobi began to grow rapidly and is now a city of contrasts, besides the enclosed neighbourhoods like Karen we also find the second largest city slum in Africa – Kibera. But we didn’t have time to get to know the city well. We were picked up from the airport by a driver named Kwach who took us to my friend Gosia who worked in Nairobi for InterHealth, an international charity. We were taken to the charity event that was ending soon but they still served food and I never say no to free food 😉
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Nairobi
Categories: RTW trip
Tags: Africa, beads factory, David Sheldrick Elephant and Rhino Orphanage, East Africa, elephants, Fair Trade, Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Karen Blixen Museum, Kazuri, Kenya, Masai, Nairobi, Ngong Hills, Out of Africa, Poland, Poles in Africa, Poles in Kenya, Rothschild giraffes, swahili, Tsavo National Park
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Marcin in Mombasa
So we landed at the hotel on Diani Beach. The hotel was actually a few large cottages where the ground floor and the first floor were separate rooms with kitchenettes, the lower one being like a small apartment. The whole estate is surrounded by a wall and between the houses there’s a lot of greenery – bushes with flowers and palm trees. We were warned to close all windows because monkeys like to go into the cottages. We also had a baboon that ate our chocolate and shamelessly used our floor as a toilet.
Almost like a paradise
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