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Lake Natron is a hotspot for beautiful life.

Extreme water temperatures of up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit promote blooms of haloarchaea, salt-loving microorganisms that give the lake its red appearance. It should be noted that it was at one of the famous millstone tables on her back patio where she would sit when serving in her capacity of arbiter of issues between the Kikuyu.Despite its ominous chemical composition, Lake Natron is actually a thriving ecosystem for a select few species adapted to its caustic waters. Were it not for Karen, the shooter might have been turned over to the authorities and hung. In that specific case, the family of the shooter (who had run away and stayed with the Maasai for five years) should give the victim's family a specific number of goats. Karen's input was valuable as the Kikuyu did not differentiate between accidental and intentional crimes. An example of this was when one of the children was playing with a gun and accidentally killed another child.

Karen would be asked to contribute to these sessions. In actual fact, the Kikuyu on her farm would have private hearings among the elders in case of internal strife, sometimes taking days to thrash out every detail and possible permutation. The original railway between Nairobi and Mombasa was replaced, starting in 2017, with a modern gauge railroad.Īs Karen gives instructions to Farah about the land for the Kikuyu, she mentions that she would not be there to speak for them in case they should fight over the land. The stretch of railroad seen in the film had been abandoned more than a decade before, so the filmmakers did not have to worry about other rail traffic. The engine was too old to function, so a working engine was concealed in the boxcar directly behind it. Repainted for this movie, the car can be viewed today bearing the period colors of Karen Blixen's time. Before filming, this car was in the Nairobi Railway Museum, bearing the 19th century color scheme.

The marauding lions, which killed many railway workers, was the inspiration of the highly fictionalized film Привид і Пітьма (1996).

While the rail construction crew was in the Tsavo area, a marauding lion leapt in through the screen window, carried off the engineer, and ate him. The private passenger rail car used in the film was from the 19th century and was the actual car used by a young engineer when the railway was being built.