Pick up from JKIA airport or your accommodation in Nairobi at 0545 hrs.
After briefing you depart for a game drive at Nairobi National Park.
The game drive lasts until 1100hrs when you are transferred to your hotel for a deserved rest.
The park contains a good variety of wildlife, especially during the dry season. Animals migrate here from other areas knowing that there’s always a source of permanent water. You can see the Big Five, minus elephants as the area isn’t big enough to support them. If you want to see baby elephants, visit the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage close to the main entrance of the park. Zebras, elands, impalas, and Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles are well represented. Warthogs and ostriches are common on the open plains. Larger game includes Masai giraffes, which browse in the woodland, and a breeding population black rhinos, sometimes found in the light bush around the forest area. Black rhinos have been particularly successful here because it’s been easier to keep track of and control poachers. In the extreme western border of the park, a low ridge covered by a stand of hardwood trees is home to herds of bushbucks and impalas as well as some of the park’s olive baboons. Impala Point, at the edge of the ridge, makes a good vantage point to scan the plains with binoculars for concentrations of game.
Predators include a healthy population of lions, and you have an excellent chance of seeing a lion kill. Rangers keep a careful note of the movements of the larger animals, so it’s worth asking at the gate where to look for lions or rhinos.
More than 500 species of permanent and migratory birds have been spotted in the park. Around the dams used to create marshes you’ll find Egyptian geese, crowned cranes, yellow and saddle-billed storks, herons, African spoonbills, sacred ibis, hammerkops, Kittlitz’s sand plovers, and marabou storks. In the plains look for secretary birds, vultures, helmeted guinea fowls, bustards, yellow-throated sand grouse, larks, pipits, and Jackson’s widow birds, which display their long tails and attractive plumage during the long rains in May and June. The forests hold cuckoo shrikes, sunbirds, waxbills, flycatchers, and warblers.
NB: This tour can also be done in the afternoon with a pick up at 1430 hrs.
