Nairobi, KENYA
Airing Date: Mar 3rd, 2007
Located in an area once frequented by the pastoral Masai,
Nairobi was founded in the late 1890s as a British railroad camp on the Mombasa-to-Uganda railroad. Today the city now has a population of more than 2,000,000 and it's one of the most vibrant and bustling cities in Africa! A definite highlight is the
Giraffe Manor. Built in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, it's situated on 120 acres of forested land in the Karen district, just eight miles from the city center of Kenya's bustling capital. In 1974, Jock Leslie-Melville bought the house, and with his wife Betty, eventually made it home to the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW).
They began this organization by relocating five babies of the highly endangered Rothschild giraffe species to the property. The family has now taken over the responsibility of insuring the Rothschild giraffe's future through the establishment of the adjacent Giraffe Centre.
The Giraffe Manor has four double bedrooms available to guests. Bedrooms have either connecting or adjacent baths. Although privacy can at times be a problem if you're worried about a giraffe poking its head through your second floor window to say good night!
For a good barbecue there is no other place than the famous
Carnivore. They cook some of the best meat in the world here - ranging from the normal chicken, pork, lamb and spare ribs to exotic game meats. Every night there are four different game meats being served, such as ostrich, zebra, crocodile, hartebeest, and wildebeest.
If you want to stay where all sorts of famous people have stayed (the Queen, Grace Kelly and Ernest Hemingway) in Nairobi then the the
Stanley Hotel is where you'll want to check into. Once the Nairobi stock exchange, this hotel is one of the oldest and most historic buildings in the city!
