Nairobi
City is the largest city between Cairo and Johannesburg. This is a very
cosmopolitan place, lively, interesting, pleasantly landscaped and a good
place to get essential business and bureaucratic matters sewn up. Nairobi
has very good places of entertainment such as films on big screens, bookshops,
discos, restaurants, cafes and bars full of travelers from all over the
world, offices where you can have things done quickly and efficient post
services. The city is also the first destination for travelers going to
northern Tanzania.
National
Museum
This exhibit cultures of the different peoples of Kenya and its prominent
personalities. It also has excellent display of fossils and a stunning
recreation of a prehistoric rock site. There is also an extraordinary
cast on the floor, which clearly records the footprints of Man's direct
ancestor (Homo Erectus) dating 4 million years ago. It also has more than
900 stuffed and mounted bird species.
Snake
Park
This is a living example of most of the snake species found in East Africa.
Some of them are in glass cages others in open pits. There are also tortoise
and crocodiles.
National
Archives
Seen here are photographs, exhibitions of handicrafts, paintings and journals
of Kenya's history.
Railway
Museum
Displays of old steam engines and rolling stock. It gives an idea of Kenya's
history since the colonial period. There is also a scale model of the
venerable MV LUMBU, which plies between Mpulungu (Zambia) and Bujumbura
(Burundi).Other sites are -Kenyatta International Conference Center, the
parliament building, contemporary galleries, a Masai curio market, the
colorful city market and many of Nairobi's historical buildings.
Nairobi
National park and Bomas of Kenya
This is the most accessible
of all Kenya's game parks, being only a few kilometers from the city center.
Here you will be able to see a variety of wild animals such as gazelle,
oryx, lion, zebra, giraffe, buffalo, cheetah Leopard, and black rhino.
A Bomas is a homestead and the Bomas of Kenya provides a recreation of
Kenya's traditional life and cultures of its people. The greatest excitement
at the Bomas is the display of traditional dancing, music and songs performed
in a splendid area.
The
Ostrich Park
This is a good place for family excursion where you can feed ostriches,
see artisans at work making handicrafts and there's also a good kid's
playground.
Karen
Blixen Museum/Giraffe Center
This is the home of the famous Karen Blixen of the 'OUT OF AFRICA' film
and visitors are able to go through historical life of this fantastic
woman. At the giraffe manor, you come face to face, admire and feed the
majestic rare Rothschild Giraffe. Top