Most Recommended One Day Nairobi City Tours & Safaris: Top 3 Nairobi Day Tours in Nairobi Animal Park, Giraffe Centre and Elephant Orphanage

Fun Nairobi city Day Tour:

Nairobi city has alot to offer in terms of wildlife areas that you can go to and spend a one day tour with animals in a park or in an orphanage. Nairobi national park is by far the most recommended place to visit to see all the wildlife in their natural settings. Daphne Sheldrick is also a popular place here you see orphaned elephants being fed and the giraffe center where you get to feed the giraffes by hand yourself.

Which are the Top One Day Nairobi City Tours & Safaris 1: Nairobi National Park

The nairobi national park is located afew minutes from the CBD and is the only wildlife park in a capital city in the world. Nairobi national park is very accessible and is the most popular nairobi city one day tours destination. There are more than 40 mammal species in the park and over 500 types of birds.

The animals found in this park include lions, cheetahs, hippos, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, hartebeest, crocodiles, eland, ostrich, baboons, warthogs, hyenas, leopards, impalas, grants gazelles, Thompsons gazelle and others. These animals are located in 3 habitats of Western dryland forest, southern lowland grassland savannah and a riverine ecosystem on the south western boundary.

Your game drive in the park lasts for 4hrs and you will be able to see most of the park as it is not a very large place. The game drive includes a nairobi walking safari by the river to see the crocodiles and hippos. You will use a specially made safari mini van with a pop-up roof top which will be opened to allow you watch the wildlife while standing.

The nairobi national park day tour is offered either in the morning or afternoon. You can combine nairobi national park tour with a dinner or lunch at the rangers or carnivore restaurants which are nearby. The best time to see wildlife is early in the morning or late in the afternoon when animals come out during the cooler temperatures to hunt. Nairobi national park is one of the most fun places for nairobi city one day tours and safaris.

Which is the Top One Day Nairobi City Tour & Safari 2: Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage

The Daphne Sheldrick is located inside the nairobi national park and is one of the most popular one day nairobi city day tours. The orphanage takes in orphaned elephant babies and takes care of them until they are mature enough to fend for themselves in the wild.

Daphne Sheldrick baby elephant orphanage tour allows visitors from 11am to 12pm when they can watch them being fed with milk from feeding bottles. The baby elephants like to play alot and can be seen wallowing in the water pools and they also enjoy human affection alot.

The orphanage is manages by a conservation trust fund which was formed in 1977 by the late husband to Daphne who was also the founder warden of Tsavo National Park-The largest park in Kenya. Daphne Elephant orphanage encourages visitors to make a donation or even adopt an elephant and spend some quality family time together.

Daphne Sheldrick baby elephant sanctuary is one of the best one day nairobi city tours and safaris.

Which are the Top One Day Nairobi City Tours & Safaris 3: Giraffe center

The giraffe center is located about 6km from the nairobi national park in the Karen suburbs. This is a sanctuary for the Endangered Rothschild giraffes which are very few in the world. The giraffe center is among the most fun places for a one day nairobi city tour or safari since it allows the visitors to touch and feed the giraffes from a high platform.

The giraffe center is managed by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife -AFEW which is managing many conservation programs in Africa as well. You can make a donation and ensure that they keep working for the giraffes and they will send you occasional newsletter about their progress and projects.

The giraffe center is one of the most interesting places to visit in your nairobi city one day tours and safaris.
Sojourns Safaris offers you One (1) Day Nairobi city tours to all these attractions. To find out more on the One Day Nairobi tours, click here : One Day Visit Around Nairobi or here: Nairobi National Park Tours

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Single Day Tour Package in Nairobi: 1 Day Tours from Nairobi to Nairobi Landmark Features

One Day Tours From Nairobi :

If you are in nairobi and wondering where you can go to spend that free day or afternoon, then there are several places that you may want to consider in teh city. Some of these are wildlife areas while others are historical museums, locomotive museums, animal orphanages, slum tours, Restaurants, city walking tours, hiking tours and even biking tours in nairobi.

Nairobi National Park 1 Day Tours: One Day African Lion Safari in Nairobi Animal Park

The Nairobi national park is located 8km from the town centre and 15km from the Nairobi Intl Airport. The park is only 117sq km in size and with 3 main ecosystems from dry land forest to the western end of the park, the savannah grassland to the south of the park and the riverine forest vegetation at the southern most boundary.

The animals in the park are also divided according to the three habitats in the park and they represent the majority of all animals that can be found in Kenya including lions, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, giraffes, zebra, elands, gazelles, ostriches, hyenas, crocodiles and more than 400 species of birds.

The Nairobi Single day tour involves a 4hr game drive in the park and can be done in the morning starting at 7am or in the afternoon beginning at 2pm. The Nairobi national park tour is best when combined with any other tour or with a lunch or dinner at the carnivore or rangers restaurants in the vicinity.

Daphnes Baby Elephant Orphanage:Go on a Nairobi One (1) Day Elephant Baby Safari Tour

The Daphnes baby elephant orphanage is located on the western edge of Nairobi National Park and is involved in the rescue, caring and rehabilitating orphaned baby elephants as a result of poaching or abandonment or accidents.

The orphans are taken care of in the orphanage and are even nursed using bottled milk by the caregivers. The caregivers become adoptive mothers and they even sleep in the same quarters with the baby elephants.
You can watch the baby orphaned elephants being fed and as they play at the waterholes as you get a lecture of each of them including their names and background and how they are coping at the nairobi orphaned baby elephants sanctuary. You can also adopt a baby elephant at the orphanage by making small donations and you are informed of their progress through a newsletter.

Giraffe Center Baby Orphanage tour: One Day Nairobi Giraffe Tours Packages to Giraffe Sanctuary

The giraffe centre is another orphanage that specialices in saving Rothschild giraffes which are highly endangered. The giraffes are housed in a large area and a raised platform is provided where you can watch them and even feed them with pellets. They are friendly giraffes and you can even hold them and take some very nice photos.

The Giraffe centre is managed by African Fund for Endangered Wildlife-AFEW which also has other conservation projects in the country. You can also adopt a baby giraffe at the giraffe center by making some donations and you will receive regular news of the adopted giraffe through their newsletters.

Karen Blixen Museum Day Tour by Denmark: One Day Historical Tour to Blixen Danes Museum

The Karen Blixen Museum is a colonial history attraction which was a former coffee farm and house for Karen Blixen. The lady owner returned home to Denmark after the coffee business became a cropper and started writing as an author. She became widely popular through her book "Out of Africa" which was a recount of her love for Africa, her farm and the love affair with another British settler.

The tour is a famous guided walk through her years in kenya and love life in the country and eventually her writing days in Denmark. The Karen blixen is very popular with Denmark Tourists in Kenya as they want to see the house and farm that they have read about their fellow Dane.

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Nairobi One Day Excursions: 1 Day Nairobi Excursion Tour to Nairobi National Park, Elephant Orphanage,

1 Day Excursions in Nairobi :

You can go on a one day excursion to nairobi national park, Karen blixen, giraffe center, bomas of kenya and many other places. All these are 20minutes or less from the town in the suburbs and you can actually do a morning tour and be back in your hotel for a meeting in the afternoon. Some of the best places for a one day Nairobi stopover excursion tour are:

Nairobi National Park One Day Excursion: 1 Day Nairobi Wildlife Park Excursions

Nairobi national park is located about 8km from the central business district of Nairobi and is also about 12km from the Nairobi international airport. The park is small at 117sq km and has most of the animals you would expect to find in other Kenyan Parks including lions, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, giraffes, zebra, elands, gazelles, ostriches, hyenas, crocodiles and lions, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, giraffes, zebra, elands, gazelles, ostriches, hyenas, crocodiles and more than 450 species of birds.

The nairobi national park half day Excursion is a four hour game drive and involves driving through the forested western side of the park and then dropping into the southern savannah grasslands to see the lions and finally going for a river side guided walk.

Nairobi Baby Elephant Orphanage Excursion: One Day Nairobi Orphaned Elephant Sanctuary Tour

The Nairobi baby elephant sanctuary is located within the nairobi national park and is managed by the david Sheldrick Wildlife trust which has several other conservation projects including a desnaring program in the larger Tsavo National Park.

The Elephant orphanage in nairobi collects all orphaned baby elephants and baby rhinos and takes care of them until they can fend for themselves and are returned to the wild. Visitation hours for the orphanage are from 11am to 12pm and you can see the baby elephant orphans being fed milk from bottles and playing in the muddy waters at the water holes. You will given a short lecture on each of them with their history and recovery process.

People that want to adopt a baby elephant are allowed to come back at 4pm and adopt an orphan through making some donations. You will be updated on your adopted baby elephant through a regular newsletter sent all over the world to all adopting parents.

The giraffe center/ Orphanage/Sanctuary Excursion: One (1) Day Orphan Giraffe baby Zoo Tour

The Giraffe center is located afew minutes from the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage and is another orphanage for Rothschild giraffes. These giraffes are housed in a large piece of land where they can roam around. Rothschild giraffe are one of the most endangered species of giraffes in the world and only a few remain in the wilderness.

Here you can touch and feed the giraffes from a high structure and you get to take very nice photos holding and feeding the giraffes from your hand or even mouth for that kiss effect from a giraffe. Make a small donation and you can also adopt a giraffe from this nairobi orphaned baby giraffe orphanage.

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Nairobi Kenya One Day Tour Package: Nairobi 1 Day Tours to Nairobi Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi Park, Karen Blixen, Giraffe Center

Nairobi Kenya Day Tour:

If you have a free day in Nairobi, there are some interesting places that you may want to visit and enjoy wildlife, historical or sightseeing attractions. All the Nairobi one day tours revolve around the nairobi city with none further than 20 minutes from the other. You will therefore be able to do your tours in Nairobi city in time to resume your other things.

Nairobi National Park Half Day tour Package: Nairobi Animals Park One Day Tours

The Nairobi National park one day tour is a 4 hr game drive in the park to see the wildlife there in a mini van with a pop up roof top. These tours are usually done in the morning or afternoon and can be combined with the other tours to fully occupy your day in nairobi.

The park is 117sq km in size and is located only 7km from the town centre and only 10km from the NBO airport. The park is home to most of the kenyan wildlife including lions, buffalo, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, giraffes, zebra, elands, gazelles, ostriches, hyenas, crocodiles and more than 400 species of birds.

Karen Blixen Museum Day Tours: One Day Tour to Nairobi Museums

The Karen Blixen is a former coffee farm and house of the Lady Karen Blixen who was wife to the Baron of Denmark Bror Blixen. After the Barons death, Karen returned to Denmark and started a writing career which propelled her to international fame through her book "Out of Africa". The book would later be done into a movie by the same title which highlighted the authors love for her farm in Ngong Hills, and her love affair with Denys Finch Hutton another British nobility and famous hunter.

The tour is a guided walk around the house which has been completely restored to include all the furniture and memorabilia of the colonial Kenya period. This nairobi Onde day tour is very popular among the Denmark citizens who want to see the real house of Karen blixen after having read her works.

Giraffe Center One Day Tour Package: Adopt a Baby Giraffe on One Day Giraffe Tour in Nairobi Kenya

The giraffe center is a Rothschild giraffe sanctuary which is managed by African Fund for Endangered Wildlife AFEW. The giraffes can be fed with pellets from a raised platform and this gives you a very good opportunity to take a once in a life time photograph of the giraffe kissing you even.

You can also adopt a baby giraffe at the giraffe centre by giving a donation which goes towards ensuring their safety. You will also be updated regularly of your adoptees progress through their periodical newsletter sent world wide to adoptive parents.

Daphne Sheldricks Nairobi Baby Elephant Orphanage: Adopt a Baby Elephant Orphan in a One Day Nairobi Elephant Baby Tour Packages

This is one of the most popular one day nairobi tours to the nairobi orphan baby elephant sanctuary. This orphanage is managed under the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust which was started in 1977 by the late former founder warden of Tsavo National Park.

The Baby elephant orhans having being rescued all over the country are brought here for specialised care under the watchful eyes of the caregivers who assume the role of parents. The baby elephants will be fed with a milk formulae and you can watch them during feeding time as they play in the water holes or with a football.

You can adopt a baby elephant orphan at the nairobi baby elephant orphanage and give a donation and you will get to spend more time with your adopted baby. Later they will be sending you updates of your adopted baby regularly to update you on his/her progress through their world wide newsletter.

Sojourns Safaris offers you One (1) Day Nairobi city tours to all these attractions. To find out more on the One Day Nairobi tours, click here : One Day Trips from Nairobi or here: Single Day Tours to Amboseli

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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Day Tour safari Kenya Nairobi 1-One Day; Top 1 Day Tour Safari Kenya

Day Tour in Kenya Nairobi – 1 day tour trip

When transiting through Nairobi Kenya from other African countries like Rwanda, Burundi, DRC; you find enough time to do a Nairobi 1 day tour, trip or safari in Kenya. The best places to visit are within an hour from Nairobi town are you have enough time to make it back in time to the airport for your flight back home. Kenya one day tours are especially invigorating as a way of releasing the jet lag in Kenya.

 

Special one day tours in Nairobi Kenya are tailored to occupy your time that you would otherwise have spent waiting at the airport. Flights from African countries arriving in Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International airport (JKIA) are in the morning while those connecting to Europe are in the late evening. This gives you a full 6-11,12 hours free to do a Nairobi Kenya day safari. Flights arriving in Nairobi from other African countries as and cities include;

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Flights from Uganda Kampala to Nairobi Kenya among flights from many other African countries

Connecting flights depart from Nairobi for Europe from 9.00pm to 01.00am to cities like London, Amsterdam, Gartwick, Milan, Rome, Casablanca, Paris, Berlin, Zürich among others. You will have enough time in Nairobi to do at least a 10 hour day tour to famous Kenya Nairobi landmark sites.

Nairobi National Park day tour and safari

This is a small national park within a city. The Nairobi national park is only 10 kilometers from the Nairobi city center and offers a wide variety of wildlife including lions, hippos, rhinos, cheetahs, wildebeest, hartebeest, topi, buffalo, impala. The Nairobi national park day tour is best done in the morning with lunch at the carnivore. Alternatively you can do an afternoon day tour/trip and cap it with a dinner at the carnivore restaurant.

Giraffe centre day tour

The giraffe centre is a 10 km Nairobi day tour from the city centre. Giraffe center has the endangered Rothschild giraffes which can be fed by hand and is a special delight for an afternoon safari. The giraffe center Nairobi day tour is usually combined with another morning session tour to the other many Nairobi day tour spots. Beside the giraffe centre is a giraffe manor house which with advance booking guests can have a lunch at the historic Swedish style house. This is a famous Nairobi Kenya day tour spot for lunch combined with a flair of feeding the graceful giraffes at the centre.

Nairobi Museum day trip

The museum is located 5 minutes from the central business district of Nairobi. It has recently undergone rehabilitation and expansion. The Nairobi museum day tour is very exciting and houses a collection of African artifacts, animal and bird species. The museum also has a snake park that attracts a lot of interest for transit tourists through the Nairobi international airport. It is a popular Nairobi day tour spot.

Daphne sheldrick elephant and rhino orphanage

The Daphne sheldrick orphanage is a sanctuary for orphaned elephants and rhino animals from the main Kenya national parks. It is located inside the Nairobi national park and houses a population of several elephant and rhino babies. This a particularly interesting Nairobi Kenya day tour where you get to be hugged by a baby elephants trunk. The playful baby rhino and elephants can also be bottle fed by visitors using a bottle feeder like that for a human baby. 

Nairobi Town tour and trip

This is a tour of Nairobi main famous landmarks and monuments. The Kenya day tour goes through the parliament buildings, the central park viewpoint where one can see the whole of Nairobi from the capitol hill viewpoint, the Jomo Kenyatta mausoleum, the Kenyatta international conference centre grounds,the central business district and the government street.This id a drive by Nairobi Kenya day tour with few stop at strategic place to view one monument or the other.

Railway museum Nairobi day tour and safari

This Nairobi day tour takes you to the Nairobi central railway station where you see the modern train wagons. At the railway museum, the famous Lunatic express steam engine trains are refurbished to their former glory and one can enjoy the comforts of a coffee in the old age stationary train wagons. This day trip in Nairobi is especially famous as a classic Nairobi safari tour for the nostalgic and people with a sense of old age adventure.

Karen Blixen museum day tour

The colonial house located just 12 km from the Nairobi centre has a rich romantic history of the ‘out of Africa’ fame. The old house was the home to Karen Blixen, the beauty of the colonial era with a life checkered with romance, illicit affairs and betrayal. Karen Blixen was colonial wife of a settler who got embroiled is extra marital affairs and whose life is epitomized by the film ‘Out of Africa’ and encased in the colonial settlers lifestyle in the film ‘White Mischief’. The house has now been turned into a museum and a coffee house with pictures and stories of Kenyan colonial past. The grounds are breath taking and well manicured.

 

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