Category: Tours and Travel
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Karura Forest
The Karura Forest Reserve is an urban upland forest on the outskirts of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. This remarkable geographical location and natural resource is one of the largest gazetted forests in the world fully within a city limits. It covers an area of about 1,000 ha (2,500 ac) and today is a a…
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Bomas of Kenya
Bomas of Kenya offers Kenya in miniature! It is a must visit to all visitors. Situated 10km from Nairobi city center, and about 1 km past main entrance of the game-filled Nairobi National Park, Bomas of Kenya lets you see the wonderful diversity of cultures that make up this fascinating country. At Bomas different aspects…
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Kenya Archives
Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel.[1] The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street.[2] It was established in 1965.[3] It holds 40,000 volumes.[4] It…
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Karen Blixen Museum
Karen Blixen Museum wasn’t familiar because of a previous visit; it was familiar because, some years ago, I enjoyed reading “Out of Africa” Karen Blixen’s 1937 story of her life on a coffee plantation outside Nairobi. The wonderfully descriptive book was written under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Then in the mid 1980s, I saw…
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Uhuru Park
Uhuru Park is a green reserve park amidst vast high-rise development in the heart of Nairobi-Kenya. It boarders: Ngong road (North) Haillesellasie Avenue (South) Uhuru Highway… Its such an amazing place just to seat and have a chat with your friend under the shade of the great trees. The grass has already been worked on…
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Nairobi National Museums
The Nairobi Snake Park was started in January, 1961 to meet a popular attraction and to provide a research facility on reptiles, breeding of snakes. Live snakes were exhibited on experimental basis at the entrance of the Museum in 1958 which later became a popular attraction.When the popularity was noted, a portion of land in…
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