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Easily the largest city in East Africa, NAIROBI is also the youngest, the most modern, the fastest growing, the largest and, at 1700m, the highest. The superlatives could go on forever. "Green City in the Sun", runs one tour brochure sobriquet, "City of flowers", another. Less enchanted visitors growl "Nairobbery". The city catches your attention at least. This is no tropical backwater. Most roads, particularly paved ones, lead to Nairobi and, like it or not, you're bound to spend some time here. But walking down Kenyatta Avenue at rush hour, or up Tom Mboya Street after dark, when the security men armed with whips and clubs cluster around their fires on the pavement, it's perhaps easy to forget how quickly you can leave the city and be in the bush. Apart from being the safari capital of the world, Nairobi is an excellent base for travel , just nine hours by road, or an overnight train journey, to the coast; about the same time to the far west; and just a couple of hours northwest to the great trough of the Rift Valley or north to the slopes of Mount Kenya, while a great day-trip , and one literally on the city's doorstep, is Nairobi National Park , a wild attraction where you'd expect to find suburbs.
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