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As many other capitals in Africa, Nairobi is completely new build town which, in many of its aspects, looks alike to any other European capital. The city, with its skycrapers and glass palaces, looks very busy everyone seems to rushing somewhere or as if late for a meeting or so. As a matter of fact, to me there were not much of attractive and interesting sights inside the city centre. Downtown is the busiest, nosiest and very overcrowded with people and many coloured and decorated matatus, if you want to see Human traffic this is the place, its almost difficult to walk there espeacially if you are new in town.
The outskirts of the town are more interesting and more pitoresque. You wont see many busy people there and nobody is trying to look alike to yuppis. This is where ordinary people live, struggling to surway in. Leave a Comment
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Whenever we go in so-called exotic destination, the most common questions we ask are, is it safe place, what is the food like, what about water, local people etc? Of course, you have to undertake certain precautions like vaccination against the yellow feaver and pills against the malaria, but do we really need to read all those stupid things which might be found on the internet or listening the huge list of awornings telling by our travel agents?
I've found a site on the internet according to which Nairobi is called "Nairobbery" and is known as one of the most dangerous place on earth. White tourist is seriously aworned not to move more than 100 meters aside from the hotel area and, in no case should go out of the hotel during the dark. Let me tell you, after my experience, it was nothing but the rubbish and ofence to all citizens of Nairobi. Leave a Comment
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In Nairobi buildings have no numbers, so if you need to describe how to get somewhere, you either draw a map or explain that it's the little white building with a brown gate next doors to place X. I got so used to drawing a map every time I needed someone to come to my house. Don't worry, the streets do have names.
All the mail gets delivered to post office boxes. Leave a Comment
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 Coffee berries by grets
The coffee plant grows to the height of 7-8 meters but most of the time the cultivated plants are cut to the height of 2-4 meters to get more width. The leaves of the coffee plant are 10-15 cm long, and the flowers emerge from the branches together with the leaves. The white coffee flower has five petals and a scent resembling that of jasmine. The flowers last only 2-3 days, followed by the berries. Initially they are cherry-sized and green, turning dark red later on. This process takes eight months. The coffee tree can produce flowers and berries at the same time. Harvesting takes place at any time of year, sometimes several times. Leave a Comment
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 Tea plant by grets
Although it can reach a height of ten metres if left uncultivated, tea shrubs are usually kept to a manageable height for the pickers to reach over the canopy to harvest the young shoots. Every five days the three most recent shoots are picked as they are considered the youngest and most tender for commercial processing. Tea has been used for medicinal purposes in China since 2737 BC, but did not become popular as a drink in Europe until 1610 AD Leave a Comment
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