Legend has it that a giant God stumbled while digging the rift valley and the imprint of his fist left the ridge’s four peaks. The word “Ngong” means knuckles – and from a distance the hills ridges do resemble knuckles of a hand. From this small range of four peaks there are breathtaking views of Nairobi city and across the vast plains of the great Rift valley. Karen was a great painter and a writer and loved hunting.Īt her home, which is now a museum you can see old photographs plus some of the original furniture, paintings and books she wrote.įrom Karen Blixen’s house there were great views to the Ngong hills.
The museum was bought in 1959 by the Danish government and was given as a present to Kenya on independence day in 1963. After the sale of the house in 1931 she left Africa bound for Denmark where she died in 1962. So she ended up bankrupt and had to auction all her belongings, including the house to pay her dept. She came to African after an arranged marriage to her cousin Baron Von Blixen, She bought Bogani House which included 6000 acres and started a coffee farm – although she wasn’t very successful for a number of reasons, like bad soil, locust plague, drought and finally a factory fire. She achieved international fame from writing her life story which was published and then made into the movie Out Of Africa. Karen Blixen Museum Finch Hattons Memorial Grave Day Tour ItineraryĪ very famous Dane, Karen was born in Denmark in 1885. Later we return back to the city and drop you off at your residence. Once you have finished your visit in the museum you will be driven up to the Ngong Hills to Denis Finch Hatton’s grave – a memorial to Karen Blixen’s lover. After her departure in 1931 the suburbs retained the commemorative home of Karen At the foot of Ngong hills, Karen Blixen established herself as a farmer.
Karen Blixen Museum history dates back to 1914, during the First World War, with the arrival of Karen Blixen from Denmark. Our tour begins with a visit to Karen Blixen’s house which has been wonderfully preserved with some beautiful antiques, a wide veranda, old outdoor kitchen with original utensils and then a rolling lawn with a view of the Ngong hills. In the book, his name is hyphenated: “Finch-Hatton”. Karen Blixen wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937. combines a visitĭenys George Finch Hatton (born on 24th April 1887 – Died on the 14th May 1931) was an aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen Blixen (also known by her pen name as Isak Dinesen). Karen Blixen Museum Finch Hattons Memorial Grave Day Tour to Karen Blixen House Museum located in Karen and the memorial grave yard of Finch hattons in the outskirts of Nairobi at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
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