Mount Kenya Safari: across the North-South hemisphere equator suite ""

From Nairobi road to the north, toward the equator line, on both sides of the road is a wasteland, the yellow color with a thin green. The town over, occasionally shepherd drove the cattle, riding a bicycle to the bumps in the road, perhaps Chinese bicycle, I think. As seen in the center of Nairobi of the Chinese workers, the rough road is also very likely Chinese repair.

We shut all the windows, isolated from the dusty loess, don't know in this wasteland, what is waiting for us. The car pulled into FairmontKenyaMOUNTAIN HUNTING CLUB (Fairmont MountKenya Safari Club) gates, all softly "Oh" sound: green grass, tall trees in full bloom on the unknown beautiful flowers, the hotel building is a mixture of local characteristics of the colonial style. Hall corridor with beautiful tile floor, instead of landscape painting decorative walls, are celebrities black-and-white photos and the famous Big Five: cheetahs, lions, buffalo skull...... True to life likeness, a huge ivory display bar on both sides of the door, seems to be able to hear the voice of the giants crashing to the ground, can't say horror or surprise, perhaps "the call of the wild".

All the rich culture and order, be trained with regularity waiter wearing a white shirt, wide belt is a piece of embroidery, fresh orange juice and a towel on the welcome, we wash but endure the hardships of travel, entered the civilized world. Lunch in the ivory restaurant (TusksRestaurant) sunny balcony to enjoy, in the face of the green mountain in Kenya, vast clouds obscured the snow-covered mountain peak, only Africa second peak, the equator is the hotel's private landscape. Ψ�а��¿ɾӴ˵�1938�꣬Ư��������������һƥ����������ô�������⣬Ҳ����������ô�л�������The United States of AmericaLady Rhoda Lewinsoh here, maybe in a "typical costume into Africa": Khaki tight safari suit, riding boots, wearing a big hat.

Fairmont mount Kenya Safari Club

According to the hotel records, more than 50-year-old Rhoda still retaining one's graceful bearing, her husband isNew YorkFinanciers in the great depression, save money, and generous is known, they have two adult daughters, seems to be the pink of perfection. But the pursuit of happiness Rhoda in Kenya not only shot the first elephant in their life, still crazy in love with the wizard,FranceAdventurer Gabriel Prudhomme. Gabriel has its own private aircraft, is fond of hunting, when he looked 15 years older than his Rhoda to marry him, Rhoda agreed, two people in theParisMarried, with a return to Kenya to find a love nest. Let her heartbeat is this piece of Kenya in the face of the mountain top slope.

At that time, the land belongs to the San Francisco wealthy widow Mrs. Wheeler and her lover Colonel Smith, this does not intend to sell, unfortunately, Smith in an accident die an untimely on. Heartbroken Mrs. Wheeler agreed to sell the land, the premise is that some people can bring back Smith in overseas remains, the Gabriel mission, and aircraft escorted Mrs. Wheeler put Smith's ashes in Kenya mountain peaks and ridges.

Mrs. Wheeler left this way: "only a couple living here (Onlylovers should live there)." Under the auspices of Rhoda, the $17000 construction soon began, from the old photos, can seeӡ��Workers scaffold scenes, Rhoda do not want to "wet dirt dirty shoes", so all the rooms in a large house, she named him "Mawingo" (Thomas Vasily language clouds mean) -- cloud house. Unfortunately, the lovers in the cloud house living less than a year, the outbreak of World War II. Gabriel participated in the "Free France" movement, Rhoda returned to New York in 1941, when they meet again in the United States of America, no passion, the romance ended in divorce.