Writer’s Plantation in Kenya a Novel Place for a Getaway

Terrace dining overlooks the gardens at Karen Blixen Coffee Garden and Cottages. The reception area of the cottages is the Swedo House, built about 1908, and which was the site of the original farm manager’s house of the Swedo African Coffee Company that was later sold to Baron Bror Von Blixen for the Karen Coffee Estate. Karen Blixen Group/TNS

By Mary Ann Anderson From Tribune News Service

If ever there was a single place that evokes a sense of romance, it would have to be Bogani, also called Mbogani, author Karen Blixen’s stately home where she lived in a leafy neighborhood just outside of Nairobi near the Ngong Hills.