Saturday, March 7, 2009

Visiting Nairobi on My Kenya Tour

Because my flight from London to Kenya landed in Nairobi, the city naturally became my first stop on my Kenya tour.
My impression of Nairobi - which nearly everyone who tours Kenya seems to get, I gather, is that Nairobi is a complex city, where immense affluence lives side to side with dire poverty, sophistication with simplicity and modernity with the past.
The information I got from a blog run by someone who apparently tours Kenya very regularly (to which I gained access by entering the Internet search term 'travel Kenya') came in very handy in helping me make sense of Nairobi.
Indeed were it not for the resources I got through such search terms like 'travel Kenya' and 'tours Kenya' I would have gotten hopelessly lost in Nairobi, which while quite a small city by American standards, seems so different.
I got time to visit the city's museum, archives, game (with - believe it or not - wildlife roaming within the geographical confines of the city), a market and even had a stroll through the university.
I photographed the city - to serve as memory of my Kenya tour - from a good vantage point on the city's recreational Uhuru Park.
Fro the Nairobi part of my Kenya tour, I stayed in a mid cost hotel right in the center of the city, whose services and facilities were quite good - at least better than anything I could have expected in the deep of Africa.

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