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Nairobi Excursions
Written by Vessel Africa   
Friday, 16 October 2009 06:30

1. Carnivore by night : The Carnivore Experience
You are picked from the hotel and to The famous Carnivore Restaurant for dinner . Carnivore is a Brazilian style restaurant offering you exotic charcoal grilled game meat such as crocodile, zebra and ostrich dishes, all roasted on a huge wood fire.

Dance the night away at the Simba Saloon adjacent to the Carnivore. You may wish to extend your time after midnight and make your own way to the hotel.

Price: USD 60 per person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

2. Nakuru National Park: Full day
0700hrs approx depart Nairobi for Lake Nakuru National Park. On the way you will have spectacular view of the Great Rift Valley, with dormant volcano Longonot at centre stage. Your panoramic journey will take you past Lake Naivasha, with its Crescent Island, to Lake Nakuru, coloured by a shimmering flamingo pink from thousands of the beautiful birds lining its shores. 

You'll arrive at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge or Lake Nakuru Lodge, affording unforgettable views of the lake from its hillside perch. (170Km 2.5 hrs) Lunch and swimming are included in the package.

USD 160 Per Person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

3. Nairobi City Tour 2- 4 HRS
Nairobi is the largest city between Cairo and Johannesburg. Although the "Green City in the Sun" is relatively young by world standards, it has a fascinating history and many equally fascinating people have settled here over the years, each leaving their mark on the city in some way. 

You'll pass by modern day Nairobi landmarks like: the Law courts, Parliament Buildings, and the uniquely shaped Kenyatta International Conference Centre and perhaps pick up a few bargains at the colourful City Market. 

Price: US$ 35.00 per person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

4. Karen Blixen and Giraffe Manor 4-HRS
At the foot of the Ngong Hills lies the home of Karen Blixen, the famous author whose memoirs were immortalized in the popular film “ Out of Africa”. It is now preserved as a museum where visitors can travel back in time and gain an insight into the life of this remarkable woman.

Furniture, artifacts, and photographs from her days as pioneer coffee farmer are on display.

Giraffe Centre – 3 HRS
A rare opportunity of literary coming face to face with Africa’s tallest animal - the giraffe. Feed Daisy, the famous Rothschild giraffe and her family and learn about the success story of the once endangered Rothschild Giraffe. Entrance fee contributes to other conservation projects in Kenya.

Price: USD 70 Per person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

5. Bomas of Kenya – 3 HRS
Just a few kilometres from the city exists an opportunity to experience the lives of indigenous Kenyans. The Bomas of Kenya reflects Kenya’s cocktail of cultures, which have been recreated to portray the traditional lifestyles of Kenya’s many tribes.

Enjoy the villages ( Bomas ) and colourful performances by dancers, which depict events in their respective tribes.

Price: USD85.00 per person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

6. The Animal Orphanage, Dahpne Sheldricks Elephant Manor
Commence the tour with a visit to the Animal orphanage. Then visit to the Daphne Sheldricks elephant orphanage to see the rehabilitation works of orphaned baby elephants. These are later returned to the wild when they can fend for themselves. Thereafter, pay a visit to the Kazuri Beads & Pottery factory for beads, Bead ware, Handicraft and woodcarvings among other Items.

Price: USD 95 per Person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

7. Golf Day Out
While in Kenya you can keep up to touch with your Golf! You will be picked from you hotel. We have a number of Golf courses you can chose from, namely, Windsor, Royal, Railway, Muthaiga, Golf park.Make your pick, settle on your set of clubs, your partners, pay your green fees/ hire charges, proceed with you game. There after drop off at your hotel.

Price: US$ 150.00 per person Half Day & US$300.00 Full day >> Click Here to Email Us >>

8. Kiambu Caves (Half or Full Day)
Pick up from your hotel and drive to the largest picnic site in Kenya (54 Acres). This is the home of 2.5 million years old stone age caves, trees thought to be hundred of years old while the river reeds have stories to tell. We have nature trails which lead to a silver cut water full (about 10 m long).

Activities include feeding the maasai ostrich, watching birds, about 82 different species have been recorded. Tour of the 600 acres of coffee, horse riding, riding the "ship of the desert-camel". Also fishing for black Bass Tilapia and boat riding.

Price: USD 105 per Person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

9. African Cuisine Buffet Lunch/Dinner
Picked from your hotel and transferred to one of the Nairobi’s Finest African Cuisine restaurant Here you enjoy the all types of well prepared domesticated meat, fish and local greens. Most of these delicacies are said to have medicinal value. You listen to some African ‘oldies songs’.
Transfer back to your hotel after lunch/dinner.

Price: USD 45 per person >> Click Here to Email Us >>

10. Nairobi National Park, The Carnivore Restaurant, Bomas of Kenya

  • Areas of interest: Nairobi National Park, The Carnivore Restaurant, Bomas of Kenya
  • Activity: Game and Bird Watching, Game Drive, Photography, Scenery, Nature Walk, Wine and Dine, Traditional Ethnic Houses and Dances

Nairobi national park undoubtedly the only national park within the city. Wildlife in Nairobi National Park is still in abundance. Here you will be able to see all the big five except the elephants.

We will also visit the world re known Carnivore Restaurant for a truly Kenyan Meat Feast and the Bomas of Kenya for a display of Kenyan Tradition and Cultures. Here you will get a first hand taste of all the Kenyan tribes. A real Kenyan experience!

Depart in the morning after breakfast towards Nairobi National park for a morning game drive. Thereafter proceed towards carnivore for lunch. The afternoon is spent in the Bomas of Kenya, before dropping you off back at your hotel or airport. (Alternatively, book in at Carnivore for dinner).

The Nairobi National Park has been around since 1946 and wildlife here is bountiful despite the backdrop of skyscrapers and the roar of jets coming in to land.

The setting is a blend of savannah and swampland and is home of the highest concentration of black rhinos in the world with a population of over 50 living here at the Nairobi National Park.

Almost every species of plains animal apart from elephant is found here; gazelles, zebras, buffaloes, warthogs, cheetahs, giraffes, lions, ostriches and leopards.  The wetland areas sustain more than 500 recorded species of bird including helmeted guinea fowl, francolins, kori, white and black bellied bustards, quelea turacos, mousebirds, ostriches and a variety of game birds and birds of prey.

The Carnivore Restaurant was recently voted one of the 50 best restaurants in the world and it justly sets the standards. The giant barbecue pit is overloaded with skewers of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, camel, ostrich and crocodile; as long as the flag on your table is flying, waiters keep bringing the meat.

There is also a good choice of delicious vegetarian dishes on offer for non meat eaters.

The Bomas of Kenya is heaving cultural authenticity; an assortment of traditional huts representing the building styles of most of Kenya’s main tribal groups with an artistic dance team performing traditional dances and songs from the country’s ethnic groups - it is quite a show.

Cost
Per person sharing US$175.00 including all applicable entrance fees. >> Click Here to Email Us>>

11. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust , Karen Blixen Museum, Coffee Garden and Pub, The AFEW Giraffe Centre

Activities: Historical Site, “Out of Africa” House and Gardens, Giraffe Feeding and Close Contact, Giraffe Conservation, Baby Elephant and Rhino foster care, Conservation

Nairobi boasts of some of the remarkable attractions within less than an hours drive from the city centre. This includes the historical home of Karen Blixen now a museum, the giraffe centre where you will come up close with the giraffes and feed them from your palms,the David Sheldrick Wildlife trust where elephants and rhinos are hand reared by foster parents and then released into the wild.

The Karen Blixen Museum is the farmhouse where writer Karen Blixen aqua Isaac Dinesen lived between 1914 and 1931. The baroness was a coffee planter and lady aristocrat who became one of Africa’s most legendary writers.

Her book “Out of Africa” was made into a movie filmed in and around the farmhouse on the edge of the Rift Valley.  The house was offered to the Kenyan government at independence by the Danish government along with the nearby agricultural college. 

It is placed in exquisite gardens on Karen Rd and is quite a fascinating place to stroll around. There is the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden along side a smart upmarket restaurant set in a very English country Garden with excellent food and a very friendly, popular bar.

The AFEW Giraffe Centre is run by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife; here you can hand feed the Rothschild’s Giraffes and it is quite an experience to get so up close and personal with the giraffes.  There is a display of information about giraffes and an interesting forest walk.   

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is a small, flexible charity, established in 1977 to honour the memory of a famous Naturalist, David Leslie William Sheldrick MBE,the founder Warden of Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, where he served from its inception in 1948 until his transfer to Nairobi in 1976 to head the Planning Unit of the newly created Wildlife Conservation & Management Department. 

David died 6 months later but his legacy of excellence and the systems he installed for the management of Tsavo and wildlife generally in Kenya, particularly in the sphere of wildlife husbandry and ethics, lives on.

At the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, you get the opportunity to play with and feed baby elephants and rhino.  The wildlife trust also encourages you to adopt a baby elephant or rhino so that proceeds go to their conservation efforts!

Cost
Per person US$140.00 per person >> Click Here to Email Us>>

Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 December 2009 09:32
 

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