Kenya's capital is cosmopolitan, lively, interesting and pleasantly
landscaped. Its central business district is handily compact and it's a
great place to tune into modern urban African life. Its the only city
in the world that has a national park as its back yard.
Originally little more than a swampy watering hole for Maasai
tribes, Nairobi grew with the advent of the railway and had became a
substantial town by 1900. Five years later it succeeded Mombasa as the
capital of the British protectorate. Today it's the largest city
between Cairo and Johannesburg.