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Nairobi is the spring board to Eastern, central and Southern africa.While you are here connect with the warmth of Africa and the most beautiful people. lose yourself to the myriad cultures found within this cosmopolitan city and liberate your soul by immersing yourself into an experience of a lifetime.

Like the most elegant of ladies, Nairobi has held on to her most treasured of finery, managing to combine it artfully with the more contemporary style she has acquired over the years. Nairobi ‘s wide and open space will transport you back to a time when Africa was untouched, and then rushes you back to the modern world within minutes.

 
 
     
  About Nairobi:  
 
  • Located at an altitude of just over 1660m (about 5450 ft). The city, is known to be one of Africa’s most vibrant and exciting cultural melting pots. Nairobi is a land of contrasts, from its people to its landscapes.
  • Nairobi was originally a swampland frequented by Maasai pastrolists, who named it Ewaso Nai’beri – the place of cold water.
  • During the colonial rule, it became a major centre for hunters, travellers and new arrivals to the colonies. By 1907 Nairobi was the capital of the British East Africa Protectorate. Kenya gained independence in 1963 and Nairobi became the capital of the Republic of
    Kenya.
 
     
 
 

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