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I speak of Africa and golden joys, Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV

Kenya; Aren’t we all attracted to tales of grandeur? Tales of sweeping romance, mysterious secrets, ostentatious parties, new worlds with their strange cultures, blood rushing safaris…all urged on by exaggerated innuendo and rumours. I am particularly drawn to 20th Century Kenya dreaming and recreating it with the same marvel the green and blue early pioneering eyes did.

Naivasha through Elementaita and on to Nakuru. I have plied this highway marked by lakes countless times. I have stayed around Elementaita before, but it is easy to assume the full breadth of the beauty unique, veiled in mystery, that lies beyond. Beauty that has been immortalised in the film Out of Africa and as fate would have it, one of the few remaining great Kenyan safari frontiers. 

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