After returning to Nairobi, we had one last excursion planned in the city: a stop at the Giraffe Centre and a visit to the Karen Blixen Museum.Well, hello there! It’s been a couple months since we’ve posted and we’ve surprisingly still had visitors to the blog. Thanks for sticking with us! Moving forward with 2021, we have one final post about our time in Africa. If you’ve missed any previous posts, the Africa category (at the bottom of this page) has all of them linked there. On our last full day in Africa, we left the Masai Mara and drove back into Nairobi. After lunch, we visited the Giraffe Centre. It is home to the Rothschild Giraffes and serves as a nature education center where Kenyan children visit every year to learn about the species. They also allow national and international visitors the opportunity to come into close contact with these East African beauties. We each bought a bag of food and a lovely worker volunteered to take photos of us feeding a couple different giraffes. She also give us some background on each giraffe, there are 10 total and one of the females had given birth a few months before we visited. The Giraffe Centre is on the same property as the famous Giraffe Manor, I’m sure you’ve seen or heard of it. It’s a hotel and many pictures of the Manor have the giraffes poking their heads through the windows to grab a snack from the guests. The giraffes as the Centre go back and forth between the visitors at the Manor and Centre, really never going hungry! After about an hour at the Centre, we drive just a few miles up the road to our last stop, the Karen Blixen Museum. Karen Blixen was a Danish author who chronicled her time in Nairobi in her most famous book, Out of Africa. After marrying her husband, she moved to Africa and started a coffee plantation at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The movie, by the same name and featuring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it already. We toured the grounds as well as inside the farmhouse. It was incredible how well everything had been preserved. After Blixen died, the Danish government gave the house to the Kenyan government as an independence gift and Kenya made it a national museum. Considering giraffes are my favorite animals, there was no way we were going to visit Kenya and not stop at the Giraffe Centre. And bonus, the Karen Blixen museum is in the same neighborhood as the Centre so it was a great way to see more of Nairobi all in one afternoon.
After this excursion, we went to our hotel for one final sleep in Kenya before heading to the airport/the States the following day. Two weeks in Africa, in the books and on the blog! Until Next Time, C+D
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorChase & Dani here, providing Categories
All
Archives
April 2024
|