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Kenya - Nairobi - 'The place of cold water'Nairobi is the capital city of KenyaSee the outline map of Kenya showing where Nairobi is. Nairobi is probably the largest city between Cairo in the north and Johannesburg in South Africa. The city is 1800m above sea level - giving a good reason for its temperate climate, even though bathed in full sunshine for most of the year! The city originated as the 500km marker point from Mombasa, on the railway line between Mombasa and Uganda. Superseding Mombasa as the capital of British East Africa in about 1905. Since then Nairobi has developed as one of the best known political, industrial and commercial centres in Africa today. Nairobi's greatest tourist attraction is probably the Nairobi National Park, and no wonder! This wild game reserve is only a few minutes drive from the city limits and packed full of all manner of wildlife. One of the webmasters has visited the Nairobi Game Park about a dozen times, having lived in Nairobi for three years on the corner of Uhuru Highway (Independance Highway - previously the P.E. Highway, the Princess Elizabeth Highway) and Haile Selassie Avenue, overlooking the Kenya Railway (Nairobi) shunting yards. With views on a clear day south to Mount Kilimajairo on the Tanzania border and north to Mount Kenya. Just off Parliament Road, around the next corner was the small but perfectly formed Donovan Maul Theatre, a couple of hundred metres from the Parliament Building, built in 1955, an impressive complex, dominated by a high clock tower and a fine bronze of the republic's founding father Jomo Kenyatta. He remembers it being a good walk to Kenyatta Avenue (previously Delamere Avenue) and the New Stanley Hotel, with the famous 'Thorn Tree' Restaurant. Other points of interest are: The National Museum and adjacent Snake Park on Museum Hill, about 2km from the city centre. The Arbouretum, about 3km on State House Road. The Kenya Railway Museum, on the corner of Uhuru Highway (Independance Highway - previously the P.E. Highway, the Princess Elizabeth Highway) and Haile Selassie Avenue. |
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