Top 4 Best Day Trips from Nairobi : Best day trips from Nairobi ; Fact is that, Nairobi is the gateway to so much attraction about Kenya and the starting point for many memorable safaris. It is also a magical base for an exciting day trip. While you could access many of the bigger national parks, such as Amboseli or Lake Nakuru National Parks and then drive back to the city by nightfall. We may not recommend you to travel Kenya’s roads before and after dark. Note, most small planes don’t fly. Also, a day trip to these parks would only permit you to see the animals during the middle of the day, which is not right time for viewing wildlife.
What follows is our pick of the best day trips from Nairobi;
Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park is a unique safari destination, located in outskirts of the capital city ‘’Nairobi city’’. The park has a beautiful landscapes dotted with rolling savannah and light woodland. More so, the park is home to incredible wildlife species thus giving an excellent chance of adventuring lions and rhinos as well as wildebeest, zebra, impala, buffalo, hippo, crocodiles and giraffe among others.
Driving distance from Nairobi covers; 9km .20, minutes’ drive.
Game drive tip; Early morning game drives are best; afternoons in the can be very crowded.
Ngong Hills;
This can be accessed from many places in town, the Ngong Hills, west of Nairobi, carry deep meaning for those nostalgic for the earliest days of the East African Safari. If you have ever seen the film, out of Africa, while on visit always remember the line at the foot of the Ngong Hills. More to that, you can search for the echoes of this era at the Ngong Hills Racecourse, which holds race meetings a couple of Sunday most months. You could also track down the overgrown grave of ‘’Denys Finch Hatton, the dashing love interest of Isak Dinesen ‘’Karen Blixen’’. Watch the lions which are said to guard his tomb.
Distance from Nairobi; takes 1hour and 30 minutes’ drive.
Tip; A local guide from the town of Kiserian can help you find the overgrown grave.
Swara Plains Conservancy
This refers to as an oasis of calm and quiet. Safari trails weave across the plains. This Conservancy is one of the most prolific area to see wildlife close to Nairobi, with wildlife migrating through here between Nairobi and Amboseli National Park – many of the animals have been returned to the conservancy’s important work. Along your visit, you will be able to encounter array of wildlife including impala, zebra and giraffe, cheetah and spotted hyenas are also possible to see. More facts, the conservancy’s headquarters occupies a lovely and calm spot beneath the acacias.
Distance from Nairobi; covers a distance of about 39kilomters in 1-hour drive.
Tip; Leave Nairobi early to avoid traffic snarl on the Mombasa road.
Lake Magadi
This is one of the least known of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes and through visiting it makes your trip worth a visit. Visiting this lake, you will enter a lunar landscape of salt lakes with great encrustations of salt around the lakeshore. There are also small colonies of flamingos and springs where you can take a restorative soak in the hot water. As you walk to the south, stop off at Olorgesailie Prehistoric site and visit archaeological site which was established in the 1940s and displays some fossils and stone tools to see.
Distance from Nairobi; 107 kilometers in 2 hours’ drive
Tip; Visit the Lake Magadi Tented Camp & Sport Club about activities run by the local Maasai.
Other places to visit includes; OI Dongo Sabuk National Park, Thika fall that rewards with memorable water falls, Mount Longonot National Park, Kiambethu Tea Farm among others.
