All of the COVID-19 distancing measures have reduced pollution so much that Africa's second-highest mountain is visible from Nairobi — 85 miles away.
The picture of Mount Kenya, however, is real. It was taken last month by Nairobi resident Osman Siddiqi, using a single-lens reflex camera with a telephoto lens.
Nairobi is a city notorious for its traffic. A few miles can sometimes take hours to travel. But over the past month, as Kenya instituted a curfew and encouraged citizens to work from home, you can zoom through the city and the air is clean. He says he sent the picture of Mount Kenya to his family WhatsApp group, and from there, it was shared widely until it found its way to Twitter, where it blew up.
It surprised him, Siddiqi said, that so many people didn't know they could see Mount Kenya from Nairobi, especially because it is visible on good days. Maybe, he said, it's because Nairobians are too busy to look.
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