Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Nairobi Day Trip Safari | Nairobi Day Trips Things to Do


Nairobi Day Trip Safari - Nairobi 1 Day Trip Tour - One Day Nairobi Trip safari Excursions from Nairobi to Park for Bird Watching
(Nairobi Day trip Safari include short and longer safari for more than a day to destinations such as Nairobi national park, Amboseli national park, Masai mara game reserve, Lake Nakuru national park, mt Longonot national park, lake Naivasha and mt Kenya national park. One Day safari from Nairobi usually include a few hours game drive and a picnic lunch in the park. If you have a free day in Nairobi, the best way to spend it is to take a Nairobi Day Safari.)

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Nairobi Day trip Safari to Amboseli National Park- Day Trip Itinerary

Amboseli One Day Trip from Nairobi
Nairobi day safari to Amboseli national park starts at 6am in the morning and returns by 7pm in the evening having done a 5hr game drive and a picnic lunch in the park. If you have less time in nairobi, you may want to consider a nairobi national park half day tour- Nairobi park day tour. The actual Amboseli national park day tour itinerary from Nairobi is like below:

0600hrs: Nairobi – Amboseli

Departure from Nairobi and go along the Mombasa highway and turn off at Emali. Drive through the beautiful Masai kapiti plains up to the Erimito gate.

1000hrs: Amboseli Elephants and Mt Kilimanjaro

Arrive in Amboseli and start off to a game drive immediately. You will see hundreds of the more than 1200 elephants in the park which are all known by name. The elephants can be seen swimming or submerged in the swamp waters of the Amboseli. These fresh waters come from the snow capped peaks of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa and travel underground through millions of lava tubes to emerge in the park as crystal clear waters.

1200hrs: Lake Amboseli

Drive towards the Lake Amboseli looking for lions in the park which are elusive but you can have a lucky break and find them sprawled on the road. You will also see a lot of buffalo, hyenas, wildebeest, baboons, vervet monkeys, elands and thousands of bird species. Visit the observation hill to have a panoramic view of the park from a high point.

1300hrs: Packed Lunch at the Observation Hill

Go for a packed lunch at the observation hill inside the park and savor the lunch with an aerial view of the Amboseli Park. You will enjoy the great view from here as you can see the hippos below in the swamp and the hundreds of birds and the Kilimanjaro as well.
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1400hrs: Afternoon Game Drive

Drive towards the Erimito gate to look for the cheetahs and more buffalo while seeing other birds and more elephants as they return to their feeding grounds after taking fresh water in the park.

1500hrs: Amboseli - Nairobi

Drive out of the park with further game drives and out through the Erimito gate. Drive towards Nairobi arriving at 1830hrs and drop off at hotel or at the airport.

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Nairobi Day Safari to Lake Nakuru National Park – Day Trip Itinerary

Nairobi Day safari to Lake Nakuru national park also starts at 6am in the morning and heads off towards the Great Rift Valley escarpment. You will see the escarpment and the rift valley floor with its volcanic mountains of Suswa and mt Longonot and the geysers and hot springs in the rift valley floor. Lake Nakuru is actually one lake among 8 others that lie on the floor of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

Lake Nakuru national park is the world’s biggest bird spectacle due to it’s over 2 million flamingos and other birds in the lake. An itinerary to Nairobi day safari to Lake Nakuru national park looks like this:

6:00am – Nairobi-Rift valley View Point

Depart Nairobi on a one day Nakuru national park tour. Descend into the Great Rift Valley floor with a stopover at the view points. Here you will step out of the car to see the magnificent view of the Great Rift Valley floor from a bird’s eye view. The mt Longonot and mt Suswa craters can be seen very well from here with their very green crater vegetation. Take some photos as you learn about the Great Rift Valley.

9:30am- Lake Nakuru National Park

Arrival at the Lake Nakuru National park and start game drive immediately. You will see the hundreds of thousands of birds including flamingos. Lake Nakuru wildlife safari park in Kenya is one of the best places to see the flamingos. The
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park is the home to over 1.5million flamingos and is the greatest bird spectacle in the world. The flamingos form permanent pink ribbon around the edges of the lake while they feed on the blue green algae in the water. Nakuru is park and is the best park to see the rhino and the leopard with relative ease. The park is home to 50 species of mammals and more than 500 bird species. You will also visit the baboon cliff to see the lake from a birds eye view.  All day game drive in the park.

01:00pm- Lunch at the Cliff side with Lake View

Go for a packed lunch at the baboon cliff inside the park and savor the lunch with an aerial view of the lake Nakuru park. Watch out for some cheeky baboons here.

02:15pm- Afternoon Game Drive

Have a short afternoon game drive in the park and try to look for the lions and leopard and the very endangered Rothschild giraffes. Your total game drive hours are 4hrs plus and you will have covered most of this park as it’s a small park.

03:30pm- Departure from Nakuru

Depart from Lake Nakuru national park for the drive back to Nairobi arriving at 6:30pm and drop off at your hotel or airport.

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