staying in nairobi
Giraffe Manor, Photo By Paul Costello, June/July 2007
- nairobi hotels
- Ngong House
- reservations@ngonghouse.co.ke
+254 (0) 20 891856 Entering through the unlabeled gate, you feel like orphan Mary Lennox discovering the Secret Garden. Stay in a high-end tree house, where you can look out over the peaks of the Ngong Hills (bungalows and more traditional rooms are also available).
- The Giraffe Manor
- giraffe@giraffemanor.com
+254 (20) 891 078 This classic stone pile, built by a Scottish lord in 1932, is about eight miles from the center of Nairobi, in Karen. Warthogs, striped hyenas and giraffes cruise the grounds— and the latter peek their sweet faces through the windows of the rooms, including one furnished with antiques that belonged to Out of Africa author Karen Blixen.
