Within 90 years it has grown into east and central Africa's premier city with a population of about two millions.
Several parks offer walks among a mixture of exotic and indigenous flowers, shrubs and trees.
A ribbon of green which runs alongside the city's main highway, includes a new sports complex and stadium, the city's most historic cemetery, a nine hole golf course, two parks, the University playing fields and Chiromo forest and Arboretum. On the other side of the highway, near this point, is the National Museum with its outstanding displays of early man, ethnic regalia, Kenya fauna and a vivid display of the struggle for independence. Near to the museum is a snake park. By the railway stations is the Railway Museum with its exhibition of old steam engines, lovingly restored and maintained and the coach from which a Superintendent Ryall was hauled out by one of the man-eating lions of Tsavo in 1897. At one time the railways and the harbours were jointly administered so there are also relics of that era.