Lake Naivasha serves as a weekend resort for residents of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to the southeast.
Today it is a holiday and weekend resort for Athenians, and the ancient pottery trade is still carried on.
Once owned by Jacob Langeloth, an industrialist and philanthropist, the property — named Valeria, for his wife — was developed in 1921 as a weekend resort for working-class New York City residents.
Black bass and several species of Tilapia, both of which were introduced, form the basis of the commercial fishery of Lake Naivasha; the lake is also a popular weekend resort for Nairobi residents, many of whom are attracted by the sport fishing.
The area was developed as a seaside weekend resort, and included parks, hotels, summer homes, and a bathhouse and open air pavilion built on a pier over the water.
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For the Martin Luther King long weekend, the resorts were predicting highs in the 50s Saturday and Sunday and in the 40s on Monday.
Every weekend the resort is packed with IT executives, bankers and media glitterati.
Recruitment centers often will identify themselves as weekend quasi-resort or vacation "camps" and not the indoctrination centers seeking to recruit followers that justify their existence.
Their courtship of doctors is intensive and expensive, and their largess runs the gamut, from trinkets like prescription pads and pens, to staff lunches at hospitals and medical offices and offers of free weekends at resorts.
