A scene from the movie "Out Of Africa" starring Hollywood stars Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.
Irish film producer working in London Frank Mannion has just published an article about the emotional trip to Kenya in eastern Africa, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the famous Oscar-winning film " Out of Africa ”was released to the public.
The film is directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, the content is based on the memoirs of Danish writer specializing in tourism Karen Blixen, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, completed in 1985.
The 5-day journey left Frank Mannion with great impressions and kept going from surprise to surprise.
The first stop is the small, classic Hemingways Nairobi hotel (named after the famous American novelist Ernest Hemingways), located at the foot of Ngong Hill (in Maasai meaning "Rhino Spring" is also the name stream near Ngong town) southwest of Nairobi.
Karen Blixen Museum.
Ernest Hemingway was involved in the big game is a 3-month hunting trip in Kenya. That experience inspired him to write two short stories The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Snow on Mount Kilimanjaro, 1936) and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (The short happy life of Francis Macomber, also 1936), taking African context.
2 km from Hemingways Nairobi is the Karen Blixen Museum - where the Danish female writer has lived for more than a decade. "I have a farm in Africa, at the foot of Hill Ngong," she wrote in the opening memoir "Out of Africa."
Visiting views from the safari lodge Angama Mara.
The next destination is the Maasai Mara National Reserve, which is also a large "game reserve" in Narok. It is extremely breathtaking and inspires visitors with exciting hunting trips around Angama Mara safari lodge - where US director Sydney Pollack once filmed some scenes of "Out of Africa".
The name Angama Mara in Swahili means "suspended in midair". It is also the feeling of visitors to see the scenery from the row of 30 elegant and luxurious rooms at an altitude of 300m above the Great Rift valley (Great Rift valley).
"Thrilling" safari in Angama Mara usually takes place at dawn or dusk.
Maasai Mara is considered a "game reserve" (a large area where wildlife lives safely, they can also be hunted in a controlled way for sports). Favorite continent Black.
The lush green landscape surrounds the "oasis" of Segera Retreat Lodge, where visitors stay in cottage-style villas, using environmentally friendly solar energy.
Tourists join safari in "open" cars so they can use the group to observe the wild natural landscape. Of course also need to have a little nervous because you will always be "close contact" with the animals animals along the way, especially when meeting "Big Five" (Five Great, including 5 large animals : Lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and African buffalo).
The large gardens surrounding the swimming pool at Segera Retreat Lodge are also home to collections of sculpture and installation art imprinted with the Black Continent.
Last stop is the Segera Retreat Lodge, a resort that is supposed to create an "eco-sphere" that connects sustainable relations between visitors and local communities and animals. wild animals.
Segera Retreat Lodge also has the pride of Bird’s Nest.
The Bird’s Nest is a stylishly designed tree-house guesthouse, with a 360-degree view of the vast savanna (grasslands) below the eye.
Safari in Arabic means "journey", which in the time of female writer Karen Blixen was associated with the great game of hunting of the nobility.
Large animals of the "Big Cat" type such as tigers can easily be found in the natural habitat of Kenyan people.
The safari motel is a popular type of accommodation for tourists in southern and eastern Africa, usually near national parks or "game reserves."
The highlight that makes Frank Mannion "ecstatic" is the rich wildlife system around Segera Retreat Lodge.
Lions are considered the "pride" of the Maasai Mara National Reserve.
It could be "Big Cat" (Dai Mieu) including large animals in the genus Leopard, belonging to the Cat family, very aggressive such as tigers, leopards, cheetahs, cougars, cougars, snow leopards, which tourists can easily come across in the natural habitat of Kenyan people. Or hyenas, giraffes, baboons, rhinos, etc.
