The masai mara safari
FTTKA 1; Half Day.
Drive past the Law Courts, Parliament Building, and the Railways Station Museum so relevant to Kenya's first steam locomotive and the actual carriage from which the railway superintendent was dragged by the man-eating lions and the National Museum of Kenya.
FTTKB 2; Blixen Museum and Giraffe Center/Manor
At the outskirts of Nairobi - visit the Karen Blixen Museum (House and farm of the famous Isak Dinesein, author of "Out of Africa"), Giraffe Manor home for the Rothschild Giraffe. You will be able to feed and touch them, taking food from your hand by stretching their long and powerful tongues.
FTTKC 3; National Park. Half Day.
The Park is only 12km from the city. Enjoy the big game including Lion, Rhino and Buffalo within site of the city's skyscrapers. Other game include Antelopes and a variety of birds
FTTKD 4; Carnivore Experience
At the outskirts of the city, enjoy succulent barbecue style meat including a variety of game meat such as Zebra, Crocodile, Buffalo and Antelope. Lunch or Dinner.
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FTTKE 5: Lake Nakuru national park
0600hrs: Pick-up at different places depending on location.
0700hrs: Depart Nairobi for Nakuru National park www.eastafricashuttles copyright material
1000hrs: Arrive at the Nakuru National park and proceed for a 2hr game drive. 1230hrs: Enjoy lunch at the lake nakuru lodge.
1430hrs : Afternoon game drive commences and runs for 1 hr.
0530hrs: Depart Nakuru National park .
1830hrs: Arrive in Nairobi and be dropped off at a location of your choice within the city .
€ 150 PER PERSON includes; transport on safari, lunch at the lodge, entrnce fee in the park and game drives.
FTTKF 6: Masai mara safari from Nairobi
Day 1: Nairobi/ masai mara
Drive along the great rift valley to masai mara national reserve that boarders serengeti national park in tanzania. Afternoon game drive. Meals and overnight at a lodge.
Day 2: Full Day masai mara
Morning and afternoon game drive in the reserve. Meals and overnight at the lodge.
Day 3: Amboseli/Nairobi
Morning game drive. After breakfast drive back |
Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya and is a city that never seems to sleep. The entire town has a boundless energy, and is thriving place where all of human life can be found. This is a place of great contrasts where race, tribe and origin all become facets of a unique Nairobi character.
A little more than a century ago , lions, rhino, leopards, giraffes, deadly snakes and myriads other animals roamed free here. The brave Maasai brought their beloved cattle to the fresh waters of the river they called Uaso Nairobi meaning 'Cold water'. In fact, they named the area Enkarre Nairobi meaning 'Place of Cold Waters'. Since then, Nairobi has  undergone a complete metamorphosis. Its growth is evident in its ever-changing skyline. Today's tall and imposing buildings of glass and steel sparkling in the light of the setting tropical sun are a sight to behold. It is almost impossible to believe that , Nairobi was a lurking place for wild beasts-a dangerous area for humans.
Culture
It would be very unfair to talk about Nairobi and fail to mention that it is a melting pot of beautiful cultures. The population of the city totals over two million, comprising of native Kenyans [mostly working migrants from all over Kenya], Indian-Kenyans [descendants of the Indians who came to Kenya to help in constructing the Kenya Railway once known as the Lunatic express], Australian, Canadian, American, Asian and European settlers and their descendants as well as temporary and permanent residents from the same countries. All together, they form a truly cosmopolitan culture.
It is no wonder then that the city is host to world and regional bodies. The United Nations Environment Programme has its world headquarters in Nairobi.
The city large by African standards . Therefore, it would be stupid to ignore the fact that it suffers from the ills that afflict most large cities. However, that should not stop anyone from enjoying the beauty of the 'place of cool waters'.
Nairobi national park
The city is itself a tourist destination . This is not a modern city separated from the great wilderness that surrounds it. Just on its doorstep the Nairobi National Park located less than six miles from the city centre is a visitor's haven. The park is home to most popular species only the elephant is an absentee. But the rest of the Big Five - leopard, lion, buffalo and rhino - as well as a multitude of other creatures are all well represented.
A few minutes walk from the city centre is the National Museum, home to artefacts that tell of Kenya's rich history as well as some cold-blooded residents, crocodiles, tortoises and the slithering type- cobras, vipers and pythons. A sign in the snake park reads: 'Trespassers will be poisoned'.
Giraffe Manor
The Giraffe Manor , built in 1932 by Sir David Duncan, is surrounded by 140 acres of its own park and forest thirty minutes from the city centre, Kenya's capital city, with superb views of the Ngong Hills. In 1974 Jock Leslie-Melville, grandson of a Scots earl, and his American wife Betty, who also founded the African Fund for Endangered  Wildlife (AFEW), bought the Manor. They then moved two highly endangered baby Rothschildgiraffe to the estate, where they thrived and have produced several further generations of giraffe.
When Jock died, Betty decided to open her house, now called The Giraffe Manor, to visitors. It is the only place in the world where you can feed and photograph the giraffe over your breakfast table and at the front door, and even from a bedroom window. The Giraffe Manor is an elegant and exclusive small hotel with a rich blend of welcoming accommodation, highly trained staff and one of finest kitchens.
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen remains a complex figure in the writing and history of colonial Africa. Author, storyteller, and early colonizer, she helped to define Africa and its people for the many Europeans who read her novels, chiefly Out of Africa  and Shadows on the Grass. Criticism of her work frequently shifts from admiration of her form to outrage at her portrayal of Africans. Karen Blixen's complicated life and work continue to be studied, debated, and questioned in light of both the colonial society she inhabited and the modern reality of a postcolonial world.
Her house and surrounding land was donated by the Danish government to Kenya at independence; the house was restored by the Danish government and was used during the filming of Out of Africa, which immortalised Karen Blixen's book by the same name. The Museum was opened to the public in 1986.
MASAI MARA
The Masai Mara is regarded as the jewel of Kenya's wildlife viewing areas. The annual wildebeests migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in mid July and departing mid November.
LAKE NAKURU
The Lake Nakuru park also contains Kenya's largest population of rhinos.The surface of the lake occupies about a third of the lake park. The lake supports a dense bloom of the blue-green Cyanophyte Spirulina platensis from which it derives its colour. It is a food source for flamingos. The lake nakuru is fringed by alkaline swamps with areas of sedge, cyprus laevigatus and typha marsh along the river inflows and springs.
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