Nairobi National Park 1 day Trip
Trip Summary:
This is a day trip that takes you to visit Nairobi National Park, the nearest game park from Nairobi city center; just few minutes drive for the opportunity to see the African wild animals in the wilderness.
You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas, also peoples and culture. Availability 90%
Minimum Rate Per Adult: US$ 120
Departing From: Nairobi
Duration: A day Tour
Departure Time: 0800 Hrs (possible to leave earlier than)
Departures: Daily
Minimum Persons Required: 2
Best Time: All round the year
Trip Itinerary:
Nairobi National Park
Tour, short safari, Nairobi city tour, Karen Blixen, Nairobi national
park, Bomas of Kenya, giraffe centre, national museum, carnivore
experience ,Kenya excursions
Excursions within the city of Nairobi
Kenya's capital city of Nairobi has a number of diverse attractions of
interest to visitors. The following are some of the popular ones:
Nairobi National Park - 4 hours
This tour begins at 1400 hrs. This unique wildlife sanctuary is tucked
just 10 kms away from the bustling city centre. Several animal species
roam within this park including four members of the big five,
exceptional being the elephant. Animals to be found here include; lions,
leopards, zebras, rhinos, wildebeests, and other species including
beautiful bird life. The tour returns to the city centre at sundown. A
private tour of the same can be arranged in the morning for groups.
More about this tour
This
tour departs daily. This unique wildlife sanctuary is just a few
kilometers 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 with elephant species not
being represented. The tour also includes a visit to the animal
orphanage at the park gate. The tour returns to the city centre.
Trip cost: US$ 120 per person
Nairobi city tour - 3 hours
This tour covers the city in the sun. This includes the city centre,
city market, parliament buildings, the railway station, old Nairobi PC's
office of the 1902 and the renowned National Museum with an array of
spell binding displays of the early man, tribal regalia and the flora
and fauna of Kenya. Visit to the adjacent snake park will also be
included.
Trip price: US$ 45 per person
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.
Trip price: US$ 65 per person
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.
Safari price: US$ 75 per person
Carnivore experience
Departs at 1200 hrs and 1900 hrs. We recommend dinner or lunch at the
carnivore which is famous for the succulent stew and barbecue dishes of
game meat, as an 'add on' Kenya's special visit. This will form an
excellent welcome or farewell dinner/lunch.
Tour price: US$ 45 per person
Nairobi National Park - Kenya Safaris
Nairobi, as a capital city, is unique in having a wildlife park on its
doorstep. Indeed the city abuts the Nairobi National Park on all but the
southern perimeter so it is possible to photograph a rhino, browsing
peace fully among the whistling thorn with high-rise office buildings in
the backdrop. Some of the wildlife is migratory and when vegetation and
water are present outside the park, they move out into Maasailand
through the unfenced southern boundary. There is also a resident
population of plains game and predators so a visit at any time of the
year is a rewarding experience. Well laid out, with exceptionally
well-maintained roads, the park is a model for all others, geophysically
and administratively. Of the most popular species only the elephant is
an absentee. But the rest of the Big Five: leopard, lion, buffalo and
rhino - as well as a multitude of other creatures are all well
represented.
The Athi River at the park's far end forms a delightful natural boundary
to the park and provides shady walks through a riverine forest well
populated with monkeys and birds and in the river pools lay the hippo
and crocodile. Large populations of giraffe, wildebeest, eland and
Thomson's gazelle dominate the plains, with strutting secretary birds
and powerful ostrich as attractive counter-points. Nairobi National
Park's pride of lions are well observed by the park staff and an inquiry
at the gate, when entering, will usually elicit their whereabouts.
Cheetah, too, have made the park famous and these might be located with
a similar inquiry.
More recently Nairobi National Park has been designated as a rhino
sanctuary and more than 50 rhinos had been moved into the park from
remote parts of the country where poaching was rife. So Nairobi National
Park is really the most favored place in the country to see rhino. Along
the south-western boundary of the park, the scenery is magnificent; this
is an area of steep valleys created by streams joining the Athi River.
Hyraxes are plentiful on the rocks alongside the road and the
sure-sighted may spot klipspringer or mountain reedbuck, generally
unobserved by the thousands of visitors who search the park annually.
Later, on the boundary road there are splendid views over the Kitengela
plains, the dispersal area for the park's ungulates. The park side of
the river is an area favored by zebra.
Within the Nairobi National Park's 117 square kilometers, there are over
80 species of mammals and more bird species than can be found in the
whole of the British Isles. During the rains, both the long and the
short, wild flowers are in profusion and there are places where the
plains are an unending wave of yellow daisies (Bidens Palustris), which
seems not to be liked, as food, by any wildlife.
Near the main gate to the Nairobi National Park is the Animal Orphanage.
Rather than a home for the lost and lame it is maintained more for those
Kenyans who are unable to visit the parks than for visitors. Near the
Banda gate Daphne Sheldrick runs an orphanage, where she cares for young
elephants and rhinos. Visitors are allowed to visit at certain times and
a donation is expected. Young elephant may not always be present, as
they are not kept longer than necessary.
Full
Day Tour: Amboseli
National Park
Depart from Nairobi after an early breakfast (06.30 am) On arrival at
Amboseli National Park mbark on a game drive. Lunch at a lodge in the
Game park. More game viewing in the afternoon en route to Nairobi early
evening.
White Water Rafting
White water rafting is available is a one day excursion to River Tana
(departing Nairobi at 08:00hrs and returning approx 18:00hrs, or 3 days
excursion featuring Athi River and Mathioya. These excursions are
seasonal depending on the water levels. Please enquire.
UTAMADUNI CRAFTS CENTER.
"Utamaduni meaning culture, tradition, folklore has become one of the
major tourist attractions in Nairobi center on the route to Karen blixen
Museum, Sheldrick animal orphanage, the girrafe center, Nairobi National
park, utamaduni is a unique shopping experience with eighteen distinctly
appointed shops, offering a wealth of Kenyan culture. The Utamaduni
"veranda" Restaurant is burstling with bird life, blossoms and bountiful
hearty meals, thre Veranda offers a variety of tempting salads, homemade
pasta ,pizza, sandwitches, luscious desserts and the famous Zanzibar
soup.
BUTTERFLY AND EDUCATION CENTER.
Its a place where something new is to be learnt every visit.A live
butterfly house. Flying house respledent with Kenyan butterflies. The
caterpillar cave offers one of the most delicious meals you are likely
to find in a Nairobi shop. You can also get the most amazing butterfly
memorabilia.
Day 1. Depart Nairobi in the morning and drive to the lower slopes of Mt. Kenya arriving Serena Mountain Lodge in time for lunch. Afternoon guided forest nature walk.
Evening and overnight floodlit game viewing. Mountain Lodge rightfully boasts of having the highest record of animal visits and sightings in the area.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 2.
Depart after breakfast and drive back to Nairobi arriving approx 1200hrs
Price: Per person sharing US$350
(Departs daily - minimum 2 person)
Aberdare National Park (The Ark) - 1 night
Day 1: Depart Nairobi in the morning and drive through central
Kenya to Aberdare Country Club arriving in time for lunch. Afternoon
transfer to the Ark with en route game drive at the Salient. Set in the
heart of the Aberdare National Park, this unique game lodge overlooks a
floodlit waterhole and salt lick which attracts a host of wildlife -
elephant, rhino, leopard, bushbuck and occasionally an elusive bongo or
giant forest hog. Evening/overnight floodlit game viewing.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Transfer to Aberdare Country Club after breakfast, thereafter departing for Nairobi arriving approx. 1200hrs
Price : Per person sharing US$345(Departs daily - minimum 2 person)
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Maasai Mara - 1 night
Day 1: Depart Wilson Airport and fly to Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Transfer to Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp. Lunch and afternoon game drive. Dinner $ overnight at the camp
Day 2. Morning game drive, then transfer to the airstrip for flightback to Nairobi, arriving approx 1300 hrs
Price: Per person sharing US$ - (Daily departure - minimum 2 persons)
Amboseli 1 night (flying)
Day 1: Depart Wilson Airport and fly to Amboseli National Park.Transfer
to Amboseli Serena Lodge with a game drive en route. Lunch at the lodge,
followed by PM game drive. Dinner and overnight at the lodge
Day 2. Amboseli/Nairobi
Depart Amboseli by early morning flight back to Nairobi arriving approx
0915 hrs.
Price : Per person sharing US$
