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Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (3): Fourteen Falls

December 21, 2010 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

One of Stanley’s best adventures came when he visited Fourteen Falls, near Thika. The town of Thika is the setting for one of his favorite books, The Flame Trees of Thika, by Elspeth Huxley, about a little English girl growing up in Kenya at the beginning of the 20th century. Stanley went to Thika with …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Flame Trees of Thiks, Flat Stanley, Huxley (Elspeth), Kenya - Fourteen Falls, Kenya - Thika

Thika: The Fourteen Falls and the Blue Post Hotel (and its Falls)

October 20, 2010 By Guy St. Clair 1 Comment

There is much to see in the Thika area, and time spent in the Thika area is well worth the trouble. There is the beautiful Ol Donyo Sabuk National Park, described previously, and while I ran out of time and didn’t get to Lord Macmillan’s home or the home of Jomo Kenyatta, I had a …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Blue Post Hotel (Thika), Kenya - Fourteen Falls, Kenya - Thika, Kenya - Waterfalls, Thika Kenya

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