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Karen Blixen Museum

A very famous Dane, Karen was born in Denmark in 1885. She reached international fame for writing her life story which was published and then made into the movie Out Of Africa. She came to Africa on an arranged marriage to her cousin Baron Von Blixen. She bought Bogani House which was on 6000 acres and started a coffee farm - although she wasn’t very successful for a number of reasons, like bad soil, a locust plague, drought and finally a factory fire. So she ended up bankrupt and had to auction all her belonging, including the house, to pay her debt. After the sale of the house in 1931 she left Africa bound for Denmark where she lived until her death in 1962. The museum was bought in 1959 by the Danish government and was given as a present to Kenya on Independence Day 1963. Karen was a great painter and writer and loved hunting. At her home, which is now a museum, you can see old photographs, plus some of the original furniture, paintings, and books she wrote.

From Karen Blixen’s house there were great views to the Ngong Hills, which is Denys Finch-Hatton’s final resting place.

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