This is the classic Karen day out, linking three very different stops that sit within a few kilometres of each other in Nairobi’s leafiest suburb. You begin at the Karen Blixen Museum, the farmhouse where Out of Africa was written, then move on to the Giraffe Centre to hand feed endangered Rothschild’s giraffes from a raised platform.
The day finishes at Kazuri Beads, a workshop founded in 1975 with two women and now employing several hundred, most of them single mothers, making hand rolled and hand painted ceramic beads and pottery. You can watch the whole process from raw clay through to finished jewellery and buy directly from the factory shop. History, wildlife and a genuinely worthwhile social enterprise in one afternoon. All entrance fees, transfers, mineral water and a guide are included.
