Nairobi City Tour - Full Day

Elephant Orphanage Our Driver-Guide collects you from your hotel at 9:00 am for transfer to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Nursery at Nairobi National Park, in time for their opening at 11am. Spend an hour at the nursery viewing the baby Elephants as they are fed and play with each other, in an open exhibition ground where visitors are free to watch closely and take photos. Giraffe Centre At 12pm we will transfer you to Giraffe Centre. Spend an about an hour watching and interacting with the Giraffe here. You may touch, feed and even kiss these gentle animals. Visitors are free to watch closely and take photos. Nairobi National Museum Kenya’s wonderful National Museum, housed in an imposing building amid lush, leafy grounds just outside the Centre, has a good range of cultural and natural-history exhibits. Aside from the exhibits, check out the life-size fiberglass model of pachyderm celebrity Ahmed, the massive elephant that became a symbol of Kenya at the height of the 1980s poaching crisis. He was placed under 24-hour guard by President Jomo Kenyatta; he’s in the inner courtyard next to the shop. The museum’s permanent collection is entered via the Hall of Kenya, with some ethnological exhibits such as the extraordinary Kalenjin cloak made from the skins of Sykes Monkeys and a mosaic map of Kenya made from the country's butterflies. But this is a mere prelude. In a room off this hall is the Birds of East Africa exhibit, a huge gallery of at least 900 stuffed specimens. In an adjacent room is the Great Hall of Mammals, with dozens of stuffed specimens. Off the mammal’s room is the Cradle of Humankind exhibition, the highlight of which is the Hominid Skull Room – an extraordinary collection of skulls that describes itself as ‘the single most important collection of early human fossils in the world’. Upstairs, the Historia Ya Kenya display is an engaging journey through Kenyan and East African history. Well-presented and well documented, it offers a refreshingly Kenyan counterpoint to colonial historiographies. Also on the 1st floor, the Cycles of Life room is rich in ethnological artefacts from Kenya’s various tribes and ethnic groups, while at the time of writing there was also an exhibition (which may become permanent) of Joy Adamson's paintings covering Kenya's tribes. If you’re keen to really get under the skin of the collection (or the adjoining Snake Park), consider a tour with one of the volunteer guides who linger close to the entrance of both the National Museum and the Snake Park. KICC roof top excursion Standing tall as the most iconic building amongst the skylines of Nairobi the helipad on 32nd floor offers a thrilling experience. After paying a small fee to the management our guide will take you to the roof top for a memorable lifetime view of the city as well as a photo session. Thereafter our guide may drive you through the city while showcasing the "brain, the "heart " and the "soul" of Nairobi.

Activities : Museums