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Kongoni - Lake Naivasha, Kenya Safari
Kongoni offers AfricanMecca guests to Kenya a fantastic holiday, in a splendid lodge with wide-open verandahs and a nice swimming pool overlooking the spectacular Lake Naivasha. You will enjoy the natural beauty of the land and its wildlife: exotic animals and birds - zebra, impala, giraffe, buffalo, hippo, flamingo and hundreds of other species. And at the same time engage in a variety of activities including safari, golf, fishing, boat trips, and visits to other parks.
Tell Me More About Kongoni Located Near Lake Naivasha, as an African Safari Accommodation in Kenya
• The traditional up-country Kenya house with wide-open verandahs and a nice swimming pool looks out across gardens to the beautiful waters of Lake Naivasha. As an exclusive Safari Club it offers excellent and personalized attention to only a small number of guests.
• The house is attractively furnished in an early 20th century style with large bedroom each with private bathroom en suite.
• Guests can relax in comfort and enjoy superb home cooked gourmet meals.
• Just outside the beautiful and large tropical gardens, beyond the verandah and the peaceful swimming pool, dwells a large part of Kenya's wild life that lives off the vast plains of the Great Rift Valley.
Facilities and Activities at Kongoni Located Near Lake Naivasha, as a Kenya Safari Accommodation in Africa
• On the hilly terrain and Maasailand can be found many zebra, impala, giraffe, and buffalo. Guests can take a game drive by four-wheel drive vehicles or take guided walks.
• Boat drives are available on the lake among many hippos, flamingos and hundreds of other bird species in a bird watcher's paradise.
Historical Background on Kongoni Located Near Naivasha, as an
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Safari Accommodation in Kenya
Kenya's European Settlers were finding ways of taming Africa's soil and competing with her fractious climatic conditions. To join other aristocrats in Kenya, there came Roger Comte De Perigny and his wife, the former Margaret Copley Thaw, daughter of Pittsburgh railroad millionaire, William Thaw. Born on January 9th 1877, her life had been lived among the industrial giants of the United States.
People like Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Henry Frick, together with many scientists, financiers, inventors, engineers, schemers and dreamers, were friends of her father and frequent visitors to her childhood home. Aged 21, she married George Lauder Carnegie, a nephew of the steel magnate-philanthropist, and, in such surroundings, she enjoyed ostentatious luxury.
After her first husband died, in 1921, Margaret Carnegie followed a custom becoming fashionable among wealthy American widows. In 1923, she married into the French nobility, becoming the Countess De Perigny. Thereafter, she and her new husband divided their time between his Paris residence and the home they built in 1926 on land at the Naivasha lakeside which they called (after many antelope of this species they found there) "Kongoni Farm". Their beautiful property is today a private park open to visitors who wish to enjoy its entire splendor in untouched surroundings.
Kongoni Game Valley still preserves the natural beauty of this land and its wildlife.
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