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Baby Elephants, Hungry Giraffes, and Other Cool Stuff in Karen

2summers2026-05-27T07:23:11+00:00March 5, 2017|

Karen is a suburb of Nairobi named for Danish farmer Karen Blixen (a.k.a. Meryl Streep), author of Out of Africa. The area was developed on the site of Blixen's early 20th-century farm, where Out [...]

10 Insider Tips for Nairobi

2summers2026-05-27T07:23:17+00:00February 26, 2017|

I spent seven days in Nairobi. I didn't go to the Maasai Mara, or Mombasa, or Mount Kilimanjaro or any of the other places that tourists usually fly or drive to after passing briefly [...]