Kenya's stunning tune with continental Africa

With East and North Africa compared to other countries, Kenya is not the equator runs through the desert land. Its relatively stable political and economic, cover almost all of the African continent the landscape: deserts, forests, grasslands, lakes, coasts, and even snow in the mountains, and different animal communities in which the aggregation of migration, attracting a large number of international tourists.

From the airport to the Fairmont The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, we see that is colorful painted cottage advertisers, lying in the grass to sleep locals, crowded bus, scattered scattered site: a typical African city.

I remember arriving at the hotel scene: South Africa and France in the World Cup in South Africa goal, Kenyans cheered, spread throughout the hotel's central garden grass. Fatigue caused by long-haul flights could not contain my desire to stroll around outside - the hotel have a stall near the market, a police guard armed with AK47's to spread the market (later we found that almost all of Kenya's "Market" is to be this way). Stand owners and intermediaries warmly greeted tourists shopping, or even a sudden you say: "What are you looking for, Master? (Owner, you want to?)."

This level of tone to please with its own reasons. Norfolk hotel room in the gallery, with many of the white elite on the layout rule in Kenya, adventure, travel photographs for visitors to nostalgia, and appreciation. The history of Kenya, had been repeatedly fight the Portuguese and Arabs, in 1963 before it was British colonial, in 1977 long before the Europeans hunting hunting, adventure land. Currently, tourism is Kenya's largest foreign exchange industry, vendors are well-trained.

Sunrise East Africa

Trips to Africa, you must first tutorial about the knowledge of plants and animals, and my first lesson of the class of African plants in to the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club on the road began.

June is the fall in Kenya, only occasionally saw the monkey bread tree, Robinia pseudoacacia always alone in the grasslands on a long (possibly accompanied by a head of a giraffe eating the leaves), and Euphorbia trees are usually inserted in the mud down the roadside . Long grass, shrubs and trees along the road annihilation of all, narrow gauge railway, churches, schools, poor football, grazing cattle and sheep, as well as civilians in the metal front of the house to rest black, looks like being buried being in the wilderness.

This Safari Club in stark contrast. Although before the arrival of the jeep to a wildebeest, zebra and giraffe alternating walking through the bushes, but when the door into the manor, a sight that has become the British Zhou Ranbian green grass, asphalt, and by careful layout The English bench and yellow locust, also wearing a black dress to your waiter said, "JUMBO (Hello)."

Those interested in colonial style of art tourists in Kenya (whether or Masai Mara National Park, prairie) of all luxury hotels Victorian garden layout view, veranda or in the long room, hunting and adventure found in color of the decorations - such as the wall of the animal specimens.

Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club built above the equator, the equivalent of walking through the hotel throughout the hemisphere. Was cloud-covered Mount Kenya in the hotel suite is the East, I work with it across the grasslands and forests, as well as estate decorative flowers, wide slopes, small swimming pool. As plain by playing the violin - monkeys on the roof of Mind to play, peacocks leisurely walk in front of us, the birds in the sky on them. This is a stunning Africa with a European tone.

Before going to bed, I deliberately opened the door curtain glass floor, the second morning arrived, the sun from the cloud came out after Mount Kenya, gold hit the bed, wake me from sleep. This is what I experienced one of the most beautiful morning, all the anxiety and uncertainty are gone. I turn off the phone, turn off the computer, and then start writing postcards. At this moment, the East African sunrise occupied me, and I forgot all rare.