Nairobi Short Excursions
Nairobi City Tour - 3 hours
This tour covers the Nairobi city walking tour covers the modern city center the colorful Nairobi city market, parliament buildings, Kenyatta International Conference Centre; the landmark of Nairobi (KICC), The 7th memorial park bomb last, the Nairobi railway station museum, Nairobi snake park and the renowned National Museum.
Nairobi National Park - 4 hours
This unique wildlife sanctuary is just a few kilometres from Nairobi's bustling city centre, with Nairobi boasting of having the only wildlife sanctuary to be found in the city precincts in the world. Despite its proximity over 50 species of mammals can be found there, including four of the Big Five lions, leopards, zebras, rhinos, with elephant species not being represented, wildebeests, and other species including beautiful bird life. The tour returns to the city centre at sundown.
Karen Blixen and the giraffe centre - 3 hours;
Depart either in the morning or afternoon and drive towards Ngong Hills passing through the Ngong village to the Karen Blixen Museum, for many years her home (as seen in the movie ‘out of Africa’. Later proceed to the Giraffe Centre where you will have the chance to see the endangered Rothschild giraffe and hand feed them or drink tea with the giraffes. The tour returns to your city hotel.
Bomas of Kenya - 3 hours
Bomas is a Swahili word for villages. Bomas of Kenya is just a few kilometres from the city centre and has numerous homesteads reflecting Kenya’s cocktail of cultures which has been faithfully recreated for visitors to see traditional village life for the Kenyan communities. The greatest excitement of this visit in the afternoon will be a display of traditional dances, music and other folklore traditional songs in a splendid arena
Carnivore Nairobi
Nairobi has many restaurants offering a variety of cuisine. We recommend dinner or lunch at the carnivore, which is famous for its succulent stew and barbecue dishes as an excellent complement to a holiday in Kenya, especially as a welcome or a farewell dinner. The price includes transfers to and from the airport.
Kiambethu Tea Estate
Drive 30 kms out of Nairobi passing kikuyu agricultural smallholdings in to the tea country at Limuru, and the home of Mr. And Mrs. Mitychell on Kiambethu Tea Estate.Mrs. Mitchell is the daughter of one of the first people to grow tea in the area. She will entertain you with anecdotes of the family’s live and the story of tea planting in the area before escorting you on a short walk in to the nearby forest to see colobus and sykes monkeys.A buffet lunch is served on the lawn and after lunch you can visit the Limuru church where Dr Louis Leakey the world renowned anthropologist is buried and which was built by Mrs. Mitchell’s father.
Oloolua nature trail
Hidden away in the up market suburb of Karen and approximately 20Kms away Nairobi city Centre is Oloolua Forest Natural Reserve. It covers about 661.6 Hectares of which a portion of a hundred hectares is under the care of National Museums of Kenya. It is one of the few remaining patches of tropical forest that covers a large area around Nairobi. Though largely an indigenous forest, part of it was planted with exotic eucalyptus plantation in the early 1960s by the forest department. In the early 1980s, about 250 hectares of the forest were allocated to the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) for conservation purposes. The Institute of Primate Research (IPR) occupied about 100 hectares of the forest while the remaining part was earmarked for conservation education by the NMK. The education department of NMK therefore undertook the survey and developed the Nature Trail for this purpose.
Oloolua nature trail is 5km long and is part of the forest, it’s provide tranquility to city residents looking to escape city hustle and bustle. The Oloolua Nature Trail is a favorite for visitors who love short hike, jogging along the trails or just for a relaxing picnic in this serene setting which has Caves, water fall & cool serene environment with picnic sites to have fun, mingle & enjoy simple team building activities.
Arboretum
Nairobi Arboretum is 30 hectares of wooded landscape, an oasis close to the heart of the city situated about3 km from city Centre and adjacent to the State House. It is one of Nairobi's few remaining green spaces with shaded walkways, picnic lawns and jogging trails. The Arboretum was established in 1907 by Mr. Batiscombe, then Deputy Conservator of Forests, to try out introduced forestry trees for Kenya. It was gazetted as a national reserve in 1932 and in 1996 a title deed issued by Commissioner of land designating it as a public owned reserve.
