Vacations For Africa

If you are planning a holiday in Kenya, here are some interesting facts on which you can base conversations with the locals. Thanks to Kenyan author Alejandro Onofre, we now know the following about Kenya that we previously didn’t. (Well, most of us)

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Kenya, formerly known as British East Africa, became independent in 1963 and a republic in 1964.

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Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city is an international place with every kind of accommodation. Nairobi has many restaurants that serve everything from monkey to antelope.

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Conservation is a global effort, and the African country is doing its part to conserve ecology’s bounty. Different from Peru and Ethiopia, Kenya has introduced wildlife conservation into the public school curriculum. The African country has an established record of cooperation with international conservation organizations.

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Kenya has become much more stable since the democratic elections of 2002.From 1963 to 2002, Kenya was a dictatorship.

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 Kenyan Bernard Barmasai is the fastest man in the 3,000 meters steeplechase with a time of 7 minutes, 55.72s.

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UNESCO has declared Lake Turkana National Park and Mount Kenya National Park World Heritage Sites.

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In fact, Isak Dinesen, best known as Karen Dixen, loved Kenya so much. Her first novel Out of Africa (1938) focuses on Kenya´s scenery. Furthermore, Out of Africa was also the basis of a 1985 Hollywood film starring Meryl Streep, one of the best American actresses.

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