The cottages are located in the midst of one of the oldest formal gardens in Kenya, which have huge jacaranda, candelabra, cactus, bottlebrush, and other trees. over 200 types of flowers bloom through the year and numerous bird feeders attract hundreds of varieties of birds. a stay over at the karen blixen coffee garden provides many special opportunities. The Coffee Garden sits only 5 ½ acres of land with large hundred year old trees and a beautiful garden with hundreds of different varieties of blooming flowers.
Location
The Karen Blixen Coffee Garden is located in Karen, a beautiful, peaceful suburb approximately 20 miles from downtown nairobi. Its numerous advantages as tourist property include the following:
- Half mile off the famous Karen Blixen Museum
- The restaurant and cottages are near the Wilson airport, which is used for all local safari flights
- within a few minutes drive to the nairobi national wildlife park. In route to the Coffee Gardens
- the cottages and restaurant is located within 15 minutes of the kenya wildlife service headquarters and zoo and within 10 minutes of the sheldrick elephant and rhino orphanage.