Nairobi One Day Travel Package: Nairobi 1 Day Travels to Nairobi Town Tour, Nairobi National Park, Nairobi Baby Elephant Orphanage

One Day Travel in Nairobi:

The next time you are in Nairobi and have a free morning or afternoon or a free day for that matter, you may want to go to some of the good spots in town. Some of these are sightseeing places, others are wildlife areas, historical museums, food and restaurants, and just simple town tours.

Nairobi National Park One (1) Day Travel Package-One Day Travels in Nairobi 

The Nairobi national park was formed in 1945 and is the first national park in Kenya. It is only 117sq km and is located a mere 7km from the town centre. The park is only 10 km from the Nairobi International and you only need 15-20minutes to get there from any direction in nairobi town.

The park has most of the wildlife found in other kenyan parks besides the elephant. You will be able to see animals in nairobi national park like the lions, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, giraffes, zebra, elands, gazelles, ostriches, hyenas, crocodiles and more than 400 species of birds. A day tour to nairobi national park involves a 4hr game drive in a mini van with a pop-up roof top for viewing game and taking photos. The One day Nairobi national park Travel package can be done in the morning or the afternoon.

Nairobi Town Tour Travel Itinerary: Nairobi Town One Day Travel Plans

The Nairobi town tour is a drive by tour which starts from the Railway museum where you will learn the origins of nairobi city from the stopover midway camp during the construction of the Uganda railway to the timber shops and dirt streets resembling the Wild west of America during the gold rush. You also get to see all the relics of the train wagons and alot of antiques of the 1800.

From here you drive through town towards the law courts, parliament buildings, times towers, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, city hall, city market and other buildings in town. You then drive to wards the capitol hill and take photos of nairobi from a vantage point. Next is the museum where you can see all the history of Kenya in pictures and relics. The Turkana boy bone fossils in the museum is believed to be among the oldest evidence of man in Africa.

Karen Blixen Museum Day Travel Place: One (1) Day Historical Travel Package in Nairobi

The Karen Blixen museum was the colonial home for a Danish Baron Bror Blixen who died and was succeeded by his wife Karen Blixen. The coffee farm they had started in 1913 folded up in 1930s and she was forced to return home and became a famous author. The suburbs around her Kenyan home are still known as Karen todate.

Her fame and glory came with her moving book "Out of Africa" which was later to be done into a movie which recounted her love for Africa, her farm in Ngong Hills and her love affair with Denys Finch Hutton. The tour takes you on a walk around the house with a narration on her life and love for Kenya.

Giraffe Centre and Giraffe Manor Day Travel Packages: One Day Giraffe Tour in Nairobi

The giraffe center is a giraffe sanctuary for the Rothschild giraffes which was started sometime ago. The center is run by AFEW which has several conservation projects in Kenya. Rothschild giraffes are highly endangered in the world and this family at giraffe center is a case study of how intervention can lead to successful breeding of the giraffes.

The giraffe centre share s the grounds with kenyas best home stay the giraffe manor which is a stone building that offers homestays and afternoon teas. The manor is a popular haunt with the giraffes who like to put their heads inside the restaurant and join you for some tea. They have a right of way here.
The giraffe center and giraffe manor gives you an opportunity to get close to a giraffe and take some photos. You can actually take photos as you feed the giraffe pellets from your hand or your mouth, for that giraffe kiss photo opp.

Daphne Sheldrick Orphaned Baby Elephant Orphanage: One (1) Day Baby Elephant Nairobi Tour

The Nairobi baby elephant orphanage is a very popular place where visitors go to see the orphaned elephant babies being fed milk from a bottle and when they are playing with a ball or with their caregivers. They also will offer a lecture to the attendees about the orphans like where they were taken from, their names, their behaviours etc. They are each assigned a caregiver who is never changed and they sleep in the same shed with the baby elephants to make sure he replaces the lost mother.

The Nairobi Baby Elephant Sanctuary also offers a chance to adopt a baby elephant or rhino by making a donation. You will then have a chance to take photos with the baby and later updates about her will be sent to you regularly through a newsletter which is distributed world wide to other adopting parents.

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