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 This unique wildlife sanctuary is tucked just 10 Kms away from the bustling Nairobi 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.
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The tour covers the city center, National Museum, adjacent Snake Park, Parliament Buildings, and Railway Museum 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 lunch or dinner at the Carnivore.
Drive towards the Ngong Hills passing the Ngong Village to Karen Blixen Museum of 'Out of Africa' fame, which was for many years her home. Later proceed to the Giraffe Center to view and feed the famous Rothschild's Giraffe which is an endangered species from a specially constructed viewing-platform.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a small charity established in memory of David Sheldrick, a naturalist warden of Kenya's giant Tsavo East, in which he served from 1946 to 1976. Since its inception in 1977, it has played a significant role in Kenya's conservation effort. The Orphan elephants and rhinos are just some of the role of many commitments the trust is involved in.
A Boma is a homestead and just a few kilometers from Nairobi we have Bomas of Kenya where the traditional day-to-day lives of the 43 different ethnic groups in Kenya are depicted through dancing, music, song and folklore These plus an acrobatic show are performed in a splendid arena.
Amboseli National Park lies within the shadow of the mighty Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain whose peak may be seen from the park in clear weather. Only nature and all her majesty could create such a back -drop to the wildlife pageant found at Amboseli. Game is seen en-route to the park, which crosses plains where the Masai tribesmen tend their cattle in an age-old tradition. Lunch is taken at a lodge within the park, followed by another game drive where lion, cheetah can be seen including elephant and hippo that are found bathing in the swamp-grounds which get their waters from Mt. Kilimanjaro. Return to Nairobi in good time for dinner.
Lake Nakuru lies in the volcano-strewn Rift Valley, one of a chain of 8 lakes, which stretch the length of Kenya from Tanzania to Ethiopia. The 160 km drive from Nairobi passes through highland farms of the Kikuyu people before descending the escarpment into the dramatic landscape of the Rift. Lunch is taken in the Park and is followed by an extensive tour which focuses on the bewildering spectacle of a million flamingos but which also seeks out the large variety of wildlife with which the park abounds. On the tea break among the fever trees bird watchers will delight in the fantastic array of bird life. The tour ends in Nairobi in the late evening.
