Highlights: City Centre, Shopping areas, ParliamentBuildings, NationalMuseum and SnakePark. The tour covers the modern city centre, the NationalMuseum and the adjacent SnakePark, Parliament Buildings, the RailwayMuseum where old steam locomotives are exhibited including the one from which Superintendent John Lyall was taken from by a man-eating lion in Tsavo in 1901. You will also visit the city market where a wide variety of African curios and tropical fruit and flowers are on sale, ending with a visit to the Kenyatta International Conference Centre view-point which has a revolving restaurant.
NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK;
Highlights: NairobiNational Park and Animal Orphanage.
This unique wildlife sanctuary is just a few kilometers from Nairobi`s bustling city centre but despite its proximity over 50 species of mammals can be found there including four of the `big five`. The tour also includes a visit to the animal orphanage where wounded or orphaned animals are nurtured back to health. The Safari walk (immediately to the right of the main gate) offers the rare chance of viewing captive animals behaving as they would in their natural habitat. Traversed by panoramic raised timbered boardwalks it also makes for an informative walk.
The tour returns to the city centre by sundown.
BOMAS OF KENYA;
Highlights: Traditional dancing and Cultural Centre
A Boma is a homestead and just a few kilometers from Nairobi we have the Bomas of Kenya where the day-to-day lives of the 43 different ethnic groups in Kenya are depicted through traditional dancing, music, song and folklore. These plus an acrobatic show are performed in a splendid arena.
CARNIVORE RESTAURANT
Highlights: Lunch or Dinner at an ideal eating spot for meat lovers set in lovely gardens outside the City Centre
One of Nairobi`s premier eating places and is famous as the restaurant where you partake of both venison and various other meats that has been prepared to international standards. Also at the same venue is Simba Restaurant - one of the best places of entertainment in the Kenyan city, featuring both dance and wine with artists performing from all over the world.
KAREN BLIXEN;
Highlights: KarenBlixenMuseum, hand made ceramics, jewelry making at Kazuri and the Giraffe Centre.
Drive towards Ngong Hills by passing the Ngong village to the KarenBlixenMuseum of the `Out of Africa` fame, which was for many years her home. Later proceed to the Giraffe Centre to view and feed the famous Rothschild`s giraffe which is an endangered species from a specially constructed viewing - platform.
Animal Parks
