Inspiring Women Summer 2019

What is the best-kept secret in your city? First
are the back roads to avoid traffic around
Nairobi and second is Karura Forest (2,570
acres), just 15 minutes away from Nairobi city
center and you are in a beautiful quiet forest
filled with well-posted walking paths and a
large lily pond and a substantial water fall! My
husband and I walk 5 miles through this lush
indigenous forest almost every Sunday.
What is the one thing you see someone do that
makes you know that they are a tourist? Allow
hawkers in the vegetable or artisan markets to
look among the vendors for whatever the
tourists are trying to find. The hawkers will chat
them up then take them to the artisan or
vegetable stands to meet the vendor and the
vendor will add an additional 20% on to the
price to pay the hawker.
If you could travel to one place you’ve never
been, where would it be? Cape Town the
oldest South African City. There are lots of
beautiful beaches, horseback safaris, diverse
landscape, it’s clean, with all the
conveniences of a developed country and I
have two friends that live in the area.
What is your “other” favorite city in the world?
Leicester in the UK. Leicester has lovely green
fields and sheep farms and canals and walking
paths with great shopping areas.
What is your favorite mode of transport? Train
because I like to see the landscape and
people as I travel through and enjoy sleeping
on the train.
You Tube video of Kenya
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