All the way north from Nairobi, marching to the equator line, on both sides of the road is the large tracts of wilderness, yellow hue laced with a little thin green. The town skimming occasionally a shepherd driving a group of animals, riding a bicycle bumps on the dirt road, perhaps a Chinese-made bike, I think. Chinese workers, as in the Nairobi city center, this humble road may also be the Chinese people repair.
We shut all the windows, isolated from the loess of flying, do not know in this wilderness, waiting for us will be what. Car entering the door of the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club (Fairmont MountKenya Safari Club), all gently, "Oh," loudly: green grass, tall trees in full bloom with beautiful flowers of the unknown, the house the colonial style is a mixture of local characteristics. The lobby corridor inlaid with beautiful tile floors, alternative landscape wall decorations, head of the black and white photographs of celebrities and the famous Big Five: cheetah, lion, buffalo ... lifelike, huge ivory display bar door on both sides, seems to be able to hear the sound of crashing to the ground this gigantic, speechless terror or surprise, perhaps the "Call of the Wild".
Cultivation and order all the rich, well-trained waiters wearing white shirts, the Department of an embroidered obi offer a welcome fresh orange juice and towels, we wash, but the servant of the servants dust to enter the civilized world. Large terrace for lunch in the sunny the the ivory Restaurant (TusksRestaurant) enjoy, facing Mount Kenya, green, large tracts of clouds obscured the peak covered with snow, the second highest peak in Africa, the only snow-capped mountains of the equatorial line the hotel''''''''s private landscape. Only lovers ranks here in 1938, beautiful, slender, shining like a thoroughbred horse racing then, so vibrant, like a thoroughbred horse racing, "the American lady Rhoda Lewinsoh standing here, maybe wearing" into the Africa, "the typical attire: tight khaki safari suit, boots, wearing a pretty big hat.

Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club

According to hotel records, the 51-year-old Rhoda charm still exist, her husband is a New York financier, to keep the wealth in the Great Depression, and generous with, they have two grown up daughters, and seemingly perfect. But the pursuit of pleasure in life, Rhoda in Kenya not only shot the first elephant in his life, but also crazy in love with the wizard, the French adventurer Gabriel Prudhomme. Gabriel have their own private aircraft, and fond of hunting, when his marriage proposal to the 15-year-old Rhoda, Rhoda agreed, the two married in Paris, with return to Kenya to find a love nest. Her heart is this sloping face of the peak of Mount Kenya.
Piece of land belonging to wealthy San Francisco widow benefits Loew and her lover, Colonel Smith, did not intend to sell, unfortunately, Smith killed in an accident. Wheeler Mrs. heartbroken agreed to sell the land, provided that someone can bring back Smith remains overseas, Gabriel completed the mission, and an airplane accompanied Mrs. Wheeler Smith''''''''s ashes were scattered in between the ridges and peaks of Mount Kenya.
Mrs. Wheeler left this is the case: "Only the perfect couple ranks here (the Onlylovers should live there)." Under the auspices of Rhoda, a cost of $ 17,000 construction project soon began, from old photographs, you can still see Indian workers erection of scaffolding scene, By Rhoda do not want to rain in the dirt dirty shoes, so all the rooms are built in a big house, she named it "Mawingo" (Kiswahili cloud mean) - Cloud house. Unfortunately, the lovers living in the cloud house less than a year, World War II broke out. Gabriel took part in the "Free French" movement By Rhoda returns to New York, when in 1941 they once again meet in the United States, passion, the romance ended in divorce.
Love the most profound meaning of the most concentrated, Rhoda cloud house presented to Gabriel, in 1947 Gabriel died in the crash, said that he who had been to cloud housing to return to their own "Love of a Lifetime" By Rhoda. The signed commitments have no legal effect, the cloud house by Gabriel''''''''s family inheritance, sold in 1948 to Nairobi Jewish businessman Abraham Block, Block cloud transformation for the inn.
Several years later, the 80-year-old blonde beauty Rhoda living in Santa Barbara, California, she summed up his life in Kenya: "It was the happiest years, I do not regret it." This is a story like another version of "Out of Africa", romantic, tragic, soul-stirring. But if we understand there is no write more details on the hotel website, may find the "Cloud House" other.
Rhoda and Gabriel belongs to the interwar period, Kenya, a community school "Happy Valley" (Happy Valley), to the decadent aristocracy of Britain, living far away from the Nairobi Wanjohi valley near these 公侯伯子男, mouth, silver spoon born in wealth heir, known for its drug addiction and chaotic sex life, trying to unfettered aristocratic life in the colonial reconstruction has already gone in the UK.
Celebrity of them include: Earl Josslyn Hay, gave up the career diplomat in the United Kingdom, and Lady Idina Sackville, a married woman to elope to Kenya, and subsequently there are many times girl next door, he is like the Happy Valley of the Kings, 1941 in the outskirts of Nairobi car mysterious shot, become a thing of the past unsolved crimes, never cracked Idina Sackville later broke up with Earl, but just like the queen of "Happy Valley" in the Green onyx bathtub, she welcomes guests interested in organized change the the duality party, has since married twice "the girl with the silver syringe" Kiki Preston, women carry the bag and put a syringe, not shy in front of people injecting heroin, she was born of America''''''''s wealthiest families, drug out of stock will be sent aircraft to pick up one of her lover the Duke of Kent, younger brother of the King of England (King Edward VIII, do not love Jiangshan love beauty, and the king''''''''s speech, the younger brother of King George VI), said that they had an illegitimate child, and the Duke of drug addiction.

The creatures are in Happy Valley

Happy Valley''''''''s story filled with intrigue, shootings, drugs, sudden death, not without coincidence, Josslyn Hay and Idina Sackville in Happy Valley "Palace" also called "Clouds". Cloud house Mawingo is a replica of the Clouds at the foot of Mount Kenya, said the party with the most absurd and obscene ". Mrs. Wheeler''''''''s motto - "the perfect couple and livable here" a little ironic, in fact, before she bought the land, here is a sacred place of the tribes of Kenya, the colonial government regardless of the indigenous people opposed to the land sold to the Wheeler and Smith, Smith''''''''s cause of death was a fight in a bar and French sailors, information alluding to the affair he and the teenage daughter of Mrs. Wheeler. Rhoda fascination for the past happy life, not just the love is so simple. If the outbreak of World War II eventually led to the end of colonialism, the time of the cloud house for the white settlers, like the last indulgence before the end of history.