Nairobi City Excusions

NAIROBI CITY TOUR
A guided tour of Nairobi - a vibrant and bustling city, commences from the city center. The tour includes the colorful market and its surrounding bazaars, Parliament buildings, Kenyatta International Conference Center, New tallest building times tower, Railway Museum and Nairobi University. The tour culminates in a visit to the National Museum: "the Finest Small Museum in Africa". It is well known for its wealth of display of local interest paleontology, tribal artifacts, paintings of late Joy Adamson, political history of Kenya, ornithological collections, multitude of stuffed game heads, casts of fish (even a whale skeleton) and the skeleton and fiberglass replica of 'Ahmed' - the famous elephant from Marsabit. Snakes and reptiles can be viewed in safety at the adjacent Snake Park.

BOMAS OF KENYA
The Bomas of Kenya. Here numerous homesteads (bomas) reflecting Kenya's cocktail of cultures have been recreated to portray the traditional lifestyles of Kenya's many tribes. Also enjoy colorful performances by dancers which depict events in their respective tribes.

NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
Nairobi National Park is unique in that nowhere else in the world exists a wildlife reserve with such a variety of animals and birds so close to the city.

DR. SHELDRICK ANIMAL OPHANAGE.
Pick from your hotel at 10:30am. Proceed for Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage which opens their gates from 11:00am to 1200 noon. In the park is the Animal Orphanage where sick, wounded and abandoned animals are cared for and rehabilitated into the park, as well as an Educational Centre
featuring a Safari Walk. Close by is the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, where infant elephant and rhino (orphaned because of poaching activities) are cared for and eventually returned to the wild game reserves and National Park. The centre is open every morning and visitors can watch the calves bathing in the mud hole and being bottle fed by their human surrogate mothers.

KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM, GIRAFFE MANOR OSTRICH PARK
Karen Blixen, the famous author whose memoirs were immortalized in the popular film "Out of Africa". Which is now preserved as a museum, with Furniture, artifacts, and photographs from her days as a pioneer coffee farmer are on display. Then continue top at Giraffe Manor, which is rare opportunity to come face to face and feed by you own hands the Africa's tallest animal, the giraffe. A short distance to the nearby Ostrich Park provides the opportunity to see the breeding of ostriches from eggs to full grown-ups.

LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK.
Leave Nairobi in the morning passing through the great rift valley, get to Nakuru National park where you enjoy, seeing different types of wild animals including the big five, millions of flamingos and other water birds. From three in the afternoon drive back to Nairobi.