Nairobi National Park & City tour

Description

Nairobi offers surprises and encounters that define what travel is all about. This is a full day of touring and Nimbus Tours & Travel will pick you up early – 6:30 am to begin the adventure. The first stop – perhaps the most unique national park in the world.

Program

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  Begin the Adventure

  6:30am: Nimbus Tours & Travel will pick you up early, you’ll be quickly transported to a scene of animals roaming in the wild – Nairobi National Park.

• Nairobi National Park

  So close to the city its skyscrapers fill the horizon, you’ll find yourself on a broad savannah, home to lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino, giraffe and many more. These are the wildlands of Nairobi National Park, Kenya’s very first reserve. On your game drives here, just 10km (6mi) south of the city, you’ll be on the watch for hyena, impala, ostrich and over 400 species of birds. Most incredible of all, the park hosts zebra and wildebeest moving through this wild space in an epic great migration.

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  David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage

  Within the borders of the park lies perhaps the most special animal sanctuary in the world. We’ll visit this unique reserve where rescued baby elephants are saved and nursed back to health. Feeding time is at 11:00 am and we’ll be there to enjoy the sight of dozens of these babies feeding from enormous milk bottles. After being fed they are then bathed, the tiny elephants roll about and cavort in giant mud baths. This spectacular moment takes place just a few short feet from you. Now it’s your lunchtime, so take your choice of dining at the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden or the world-famous Carnivore restaurant.

• Karen Blixen Museum

  If you’ve read the book or seen the movie, “Out of Africa”, you are already familiar with the life of writer, planter and legend Karen Blixen. If not, you’ll learn all about Blixen in her home on this beautiful homestead at the foot of the Ngong Hills. Here Blixen established a coffee plantation in colonial Africa. The museum features artifacts from her life as well as props from the classic movie which was shot close by.

• Giraffe Centre

  Our tour continues to thrill at this refuge for the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe where you can climb the high platform and try your hand at feeding one of the towering creatures. Some lucky visitors here have even gotten a giraffe kiss!

Kazuri Beads: This is a fitting end to a day highlighting Kenya’s creative enterprises. Combining imagination, artistic vision and the desire for self-sufficiency, Kazuri has become a thriving business where single mothers learn the skills and expertise to support themselves while creating beautiful beaded jewelry.