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Close to Nairobi, you can visit the house where Danish author Karen Blixen once lived, and Out of Africa filmed.
A tour of the house was quickly made, with one of the capable guides telling me stories about Karen Blixen and her time in Kenya. She pointed out furniture used by the Danish author, clothes used by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford while acting in the movie, explained how Karen Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, used to live, and how her life took turns for the worst during her stay in Kenya. After first marrying the Swedish Baron, which automatically made her a Baroness, and moving to Kenya to start a coffee plantation, the marriage ended in divorce, her later love affair with Denys Finch-Hatton ended in tragedy when he crashed with his plane, and the coffee plantation did not deliver, probably because she used a wrong type of coffee plant. Even though she felt at home in Kenya, she was forced to sell the house in 1931 and return to her native Denmark. There, she would turn to writing, "Out of Africa" being her most famous novel based on her experiences in Kenya, and base for the Oscar-winning movie.
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