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Dusit D2: The heavenly green city in Nairobi

Tucked away in the exclusive, ultra-modern 14 Riverside cul-de-sac is Nairobi’s latest hotel — Dusit D2.

I was immediately curious about the name and learned that Dusit is a word derived by King Rama V of Thailand, who died in the 1910. It encompassed the Utopian concept of a garden in heaven and can be translated to mean “green city in heaven”.

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