Nairobi City
Highlights: City Centre, Shopping areas, Parliament buildings, National Museum and Snake Park.
The tour covers the modern city centre, the National Museum and the adjacent Snake Park, Parliament buildings, the 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 visit to the KenyattaInternational Conference Centre view-point which has a revolving restaurant.
Nairobi National Park
Highlights: Nairobi National Park Safari 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 tour returns to the city centre by sundown.
Bomas of Kenya
Experience: 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 Experience
Highlights: Lunch or Dinner at an ideal eating spot meat lovers set in lovely gardens outside the City Centre
This is one of Nairobi's premier eating places and is famous as the restaurant where you partake of both venison and various other meat 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 (extra cost).
Karen Blixen
Highlights: Karen Blixen Museum, hand made ceramics, jeweler making at Kazuri and the Giraffe Centre.
Drive towards Ngong Hills by passing the Ngong village to the Karen Blixen Museum 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.
