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Ostrich is one of the largest living species of bird in the world. Ostriches are known for their amazingly long necks, lofty heights, two toes and large eye ball. There are 2 types of ostriches at the farm; the Somali ostrich with blue-neck and the Masai ostrich which has a pink neck and legs.  The ostrich is the largest bird in the world and cannot fly but can run up to 70 kilometers per hour.

In the tour farm you have an opportunity to be up close and personal with ostriches. You get to tour the farm and learn the way the birds are bred in different age groups, from babies to adults.

There also are plenty of opportunities to catch an appropriate memento image—or a selfie with the birds. There is also the opportunity to hand-feed the ostriches, and if the weather is good, you can even take an ostrich ride!

After the tour you’ll have lunch with ostrich meat that’s low in cholesterol. Later inside the afternoon you can swim as you loosen up before we return again to the city.

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Brief Itinerary

Start your culinary adventure with pick up at your centrally located Nairobi hotel. Drive about 3 miles (4km) outside the city to the famous Carnivore Restaurant. Enter the rustic atmosphere of Carnivore with it’s rough hewn beams, wooden decor and roasting pit. Take your seat upon Zebra striped chairs. Prepare to feast as servers donning zebra striped aprons and straw hats, carrying Masai swords, greet you.

Start your lunch with the soup of the day, home-baked brown bread and butter. Let the feeding frenzy begin as an army of carvers fill the sizzling, cast iron plates in front of you. Savor the specialities such as haunch of ostrich, crocodile, Chicken Tikka, leg of lamb, Chicken Yakitori, pork spare ribs, a variety of sausages and more. Pair these delicacies with a wide selection of salads and vegetable sides. Try one of the many sauces available on the double-story, revolving tray in the center of the table. Finish your meal with a tasty dessert and cup of coffee.

Raise the white flag, perched atop the center of the tray, to declare you are full. Participate in this fun, time-honoured Carnivore Restaurant tradition. Say goodbye to the friendly staff of Carnivore Restaurant satisfied by both the bountiful meal and memories.

Return to your hotel in Nairobi by your driver .

Cost per person sharing

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Brief Itinerary

Start your tour with pick up at your Nairobi Accommodation/Hotel 8:30am.

Start off to the Giraffe Center, headquarters for the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife made famous by ‘Daisy Rothschild. It is quite an experience being eye to eye with a giraffe – you can get a real sense of the size of these gentle giants.There is also an education centre with lots of information about the breeding and conservation of the rarest of Kenya’s three giraffe species. Learn their behaviors, traits and more conservation education as you get up close and personal on a raised observation platform.

The next stop visit Kazuri Bead Factory. This is a pottery company that makes one of the world most beautiful beads. You will be shown all the stages from the start to the finish. It’s also a unique factory as it employs single mother parents from the poor neighborhood who earn a living to support their families. This pottery, ceramic and bead factory employs all single mothers to make its beautiful gifts and souvenirs – which are now exported all around the world. There is a gift shop which stocks some of their wares. Please note that the workshop is closed Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday, however the gift shop is open 7 days.

You will then be driven to the old colonial house of Danish author, Karen Blixen. Now a museum, this property and the surrounding Ngong Hills were made famous in the book and then the movie ‘Out of Africa’. It is a must see for all Danes and lovers of African history and romance. Return to your hotel around 5pm.

Cost per person sharing

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Brief Itinerary

Get an early start on the day with 6am pickup from your centrally-located Nairobi hotel, then begin the 3.5-hour drive to the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, passing through a scenic landscape of coffee and tea estates.

Make the first stop at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a refuge for chimpanzees from around West and Central Africa. Learn about some of the 38 chimpanzees that live in the sanctuary’s natural enclosures, and see the primates as they approach a feeding platform.
Continue into the Ol Pejeta Conservancy for a game drive across the open plains, which are home to a remarkable population of rare animals including wild dogs, zebras, cheetahs, and hartebeest, as well as the “Big Five”: lion, Cape buffalo, African elephant, leopard, and rhinoceros. Visit one of the lodges within the game sanctuary for lunch (own expense).

After your meal, visit a rhino homestead and a manyatta, a reproduction of a traditional Kenyan homestead, where you can learn about Maasai, Polot, Turkana, and Samburu cultures. Meet village residents, see traditional-style homes and dances, and shop for unique souvenirs. In mid-afternoon, begin the return trip to Nairobi, where this tour concludes with drop-off at your accommodations at roughly 6:30pm.

Please note: A passport is required on the day of travel.

Cost per person sharing

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Brief Itinerary

The tour starts by pick you from your Nairobi Hotel/Accommodation/JKIA Airport

Arrive Kiambethu Tea Estate 11am, main house. Marcus and Fiona welcome you with some home made biscuits (yum!) and of course tea, before regaling tales of the farm and the tea making process

The gardens around the home are lovely and well worth a stroll, especially to catch glimpses of the resident colobus monkeys! Also included in the tour is a walk through the indigenous forest that is still preserved (most was cleared for the tea farms). The guide is highly entertaining and comical!

The tour ends with a relaxed lunch. Again most of the produce is locally sourced and when making reservations inform them of any dietary requirements! Lunch is a 3 course affair with complementary beverages, soft drinks and of course teas and coffee!

Return to the city arriving at around 5:30pm.

Cost per person sharing

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Brief Itinerary

The day tour starts 6:00AM by picking you from your hotel/residence and a short transfer to Nairobi National Park. From there, take an exciting 4-hour game drive through the park. Stay on the lookout for many species of game animals, including black rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffalo’s, giraffes, zebras, and wildebeest, as well as countless species of wild birds. The park’s open border on its southeast perimeter allows a corridor for the natural migration of game animals during the seasonal rains. Other attractions include the ivory burning site monument, and walking trails at hippo pools.

10.30hrs You will exit the Nairobi National Park to be taken to the David  Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Conservation Center, Once you arrive you will take a walk through the nursery and you will explore the path and trails the infants take. See a mud or elephants being fed. Walk around the stables that the elephants sleep in at night accompanied by their elephant keepers. The feeding time is from 11am to 12 pm.

There after you will head to the Tamambo Restaurant/Mamba Village  for lunch(Own Expense).

After lunch we head to the Giraffe Center the headquarter for the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife made famous by ‘Daisy Rothschild’, a giraffe calf rescued from Soi, on the Western Kenya border. Daisy and her family form only a small part of a herd of these gentle giants, living in a semi wild state at Giraffe Manor. These animals will come to a protecting wall to be fed. Make most use of your visit when you go to the Giraffe center nature trail up until the Gogo river. This is what most people don’t get to see and it’s a fascinating place to walk in the nature, with bushes on either side and birds giving the most wondrous songs. Reach down to the river and search for giraffes in the wild. The trail will take about 1 hour going up and down in a relaxing pace.

You then drive to Kazuri Beads factory where a team of African women offer paints and necklaces. At around 5pm, you will be brought back to your hotel.

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Brief Itinerary

Start your tour with pick up at your Nairobi Accommodation/Hotel/JKIA Airport

The first stop will be at Giraffe Center to see some Rothschild giraffes. The center’s main purpose is to protect and help with the breeding of the endangered Rothschild Giraffe. You will be able to interact with and feed the Giraffes from a raised observation platform. These platforms allow the visitors to come eye-to-eye with the Giraffes. The center also has a large auditorium where visitors can listen to talks about Giraffe conservation and a various activities the centre is involved in.

The next stop will be David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage where you will get up-close to elephant calves. Daphne Sheldrick, as part of the David Sheldrick Conservation Foundation, rehabilitates baby elephants and other wildlife here at her home just outside of Nairobi National Park. These babies have lost their mothers to poaching, death, injuries, on getting lost in the wild or other tragedies.

You will then be driven to Kazuri Beads factory a pottery company that makes one of the world most beautiful beads. You will be shown all the stages from the start to the finish. Have lunch(own expense) at Bomas of Kenya then enter auditorium for cultural dances

The tribal cultural shows happens every day from 2:30pm to 4pm and display tribal talent in music, dance, theatre/drama, fashion show, poetry/recitals and comedies. If you are interested in Kenyan culture or just want an afternoon of African entertainment, this is a day trip not to be missed!

Cost per person sharing

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Brief Itinerary

Depart your Nairobi Hotel 7am and drive to the Hells Gate National Park with stops at view points to marvel at the scenic Great rift valley escarpment. Hell’s Gate is one of Kenya’s smaller National Parks, which can be explored on foot and do some cycling.

Arrive at the gate of Hell’s Gate around mid morning, start biking tour for 2 hours within hell’s gate, some people will opt to drive which is also allowed. Animals seen here include Bushbucks, Dikdiks, Giraffes, Gazelles, Gnus, Hartebeests, Impalas, Klipspringers, Buffaloes, Hyraxes, Zebras, Hyenas, Jackals, Mongooses, Baboons, Monkeys and Porcupines amongst others. The park has historically been an important home for the rare lammergeyer vultures.

From 11am, visit the gorges for 1 hour, capture beautiful panoramas of the gorge’s small thin depressions of land mass where you can walk underneath.

Around 12pm return the bike at the gate. Then at 1pm for Lunch Naivasha Fishermans camp. At 2pm, enjoy a relaxing boat ride on Lake Naivasha where you can see some of the local wildlife which includes hippos, buffalo, fish eagles, pelicans and much more for 1 hour.

End of the tour drive back to Nairobi arriving around 6pm.

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What to Expect
Lake Nakuru, a small (it varies from 5 to 30 square kilometers) shallow alkaline lake on the edge of the town of Nakuru lies about 160 kilometers north of Nairobi. It can therefore be visited in a day tour from the capital or more likely as part of a circuit taking in the Masai Mara or Lake Baringo and east to Samburu.

The lake is world famous as the location of the greatest bird spectacle on earth – myriads of fuschia pink flamingoes whose numbers are legion, often more than a million maybe two. The park now has more than 25 rhinos, one of the largest concentrations in the country, so the chances of spotting these survivors are good.
There are also a number of Rothschild’s giraffe, again translocated for safety from western Kenya beginning in 1977. Waterbuck are very common and both the Kenya species are found here. Among the predators are lion and leopard, the latter being seen much more frequently in recent times.

Brief Itinerary

0700hrs: Depart Nairobi for Nakuru National park

1000hrs: Arrive at the Nakuru National park and proceed for a 2hr game drive.

1230hrs: Enjoy lunch at the Sarova Lionhill Lodge

OR Lake Nakuru Lodge with ample time to relax.

1430hrs: game drive enroute to Nairobi.

1830hrs: Arrive in Nairobi and be dropped off at a location of your choice within the city.

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