Nairobi Mamba Village
Crocodile farm of shallow ponds and sunning reptiles on a former colonial coffee estate.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nairobi Mamba Village walks you past ponds holding roughly seventy Nile crocodiles on land that once belonged to a six-thousand-acre coffee farm run by Danish baroness Karen Blixen. It traces her failed coffee venture, her sale of the land in nineteen thirty-one, and how a banker named Martin carved the property into plots and named the whole neighborhood Karen after her. Her memoir, Out of Africa, made her failure famous long after the coffee bushes disappeared, decades before any crocodile arrived on the land.
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