Giraffe Manor

Giraffe Manor is a small, boutique hotel in the Lang'ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya which, together with the AFEW Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Nubian giraffes, and operates a breeding programme to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies. == History == The Manor was modelled on a Scottish hunting lodge, and was constructed in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, a member of the Mackintosh family, of Mackintosh's Toffee fame, originally sitting on 150 acres (61 ha) of land running down to the Mbagathi River, the southern boundary of the city of Nairobi.

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Giraffe Manor

Giraffe Manor is a small, boutique hotel in the Lang'ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya which, together with the AFEW Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to a number of endangered Nubian giraffes, and operates a breeding programme to reintroduce breeding pairs back into the wild to secure the future of the subspecies. == History == The Manor was modelled on a Scottish hunting lodge, and was constructed in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, a member of the Mackintosh family, of Mackintosh's Toffee fame, originally sitting on 150 acres (61 ha) of land running down to the Mbagathi River, the southern boundary of the city of Nairobi.

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