DAY TRIPS
We offer a variety of day trips in and around Nairobi for groups and individuals. Whether you are here on holiday and have a day to fill, or staying a little longer and looking for a weekend get-away, we can help you. I f you have an idea of where you would like to visit but don’t know how to get there, let us know and we will take care of it for you.
Mt. Longonot Day Trip
Destination: Mt. Longonot/L. Naivasha
Depart: 0800hrs
Mount Longonot day trip hiking tour to the top of the Great Rift Valley will give you the chance to experience the freedom and awesome wildness of East Africa. Mt Longonot has a tree filled interior and a lonesome steam vent. A climb up Mount Longonot is an ideal day trip from either Nairobi or Naivasha. The best time to visit is the months of January to April and from September to December.
This adventure hiking offers you a day out outside Nairobi where you enjoy the walk, hike, view of great riftvalley, wildlife, birds and lunch at Lake Naivasha. Walks are through a National Park containing herds of Zebras, Kongoni, Giraffe and warthogs. The variety of bird life should not be missed. The full day hikes are past towering vulture inhabited cliffs, down a dry riverbed to the boiling sulphurous springs, hike up Mt. Longonot to the crater.
Return to Nairobi early evening.
Amboseli Day Trip
Destination: Amboseli National Park
Depart: 0600hrs
Amboseli National Park is 240 kilometers from Nairobi via Namanga on the Nairobi - Arusha Road, through Meshanani Gate. The Park is also accessible from Nairobi via Emali (about 228 kilometers) on the Nairobi - Mombasa Road. Amboseli is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among other wildlife species.
Amboseli National Park lies with the shadows of the mighty Kilimanjaro Africa’s highest Mountain. Game is seen en-route to the Park, which crosses plains where the Masai Tribesmen herd their cattle. Lunch will be served at a lodge within the Park, followed by another game drive, where lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebra, Buffalo and Wildebeest may be spotted. Hippos can also be seen bathing in the swamps, which gets its water from the underground springs of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Return to Nairobi in the evening.
Mt. Kenya Day Trip
Destination: Sweetwaters/Ol Pejeta
Depart: 0600hrs
Mt. Kenya National Park is located to the east of the Great Rift Valley, about 175km North-East of Nairobi. The ecosystem lies in Central and Eastern provinces of Kenya. At 5,199m the mountain is the second highest peak in Africa. Mt. Kenya is an important water tower in the country. It provides water for about 50% of the country’s population and produces 70% of Kenya’s hydroelectric power.
UNESCO inscribed Mount Kenya as a World Heritage Site. Its described as one of the most impressive landscapes in Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moorlands and diverse forests that illustrate outstanding ecological processes.
Return to Nairobi in the evening.
Lake Nakuru Day Trip
Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
Depart: 0730hrs
Lake Nakuru National Park tour is a trip down the Rift Valley escarpments with a scenic view of the Great Rift Valley en route. It is one of the most scenic parks in East Africa, a bird and rhino sanctuary and is home to a wide range of animals including lion, leopard, buffalo, giraffe, waterbuck and rhino, the only notable exception being the elephant.
Lake Nakuru is noted for its huge concentration of Flamingoes. The park is also a bird watcher’s paradise, with 400 known species having been spotted here. Vegetation ranges from savannah to various indigenous forests. A world heritage site, Lake Nakuru is most famous for the breathtaking sight of its million-plus grand pink flamingo population joined into a massive flock of pulsating pink swathe of live carpet on water.
Return to Nairobi early evening.
Aberdare Day Trip
Destination: Aberdare National Park
Depart: 0800hrs
The Aberdare National Park covers the higher areas of the Aberdare Mountain Ranges of Central Kenya. The Park with its magnificent landscape offers a wonderful unique opportunity to view scenery you don’t necessarily expect in Africa. Animals easily observed in the park include; the Black Rhino, leopard, baboon, black and white Colobus monkey and sykes monkey.
Rarer sightings include those of lions, the golden cat and the bongo- an elusive forest antelope that lives in the bamboo forest. Animals like the eland and spotted and melanistic serval cats can be found higher up in the moorlands. Visitors can also indulge in picnics, trout fishing in the rivers and camping in the moorlands. Bird viewing is rewarding, with over 250 species of birds in the park, including the Jackson's Francolin sparry hawk, goshawks, eagles, sunbirds and plovers.
Return to Nairobi in the evening.
Coffee/Tea Plantation
Destination: Kiambethu/Kigwa Plantations
Depart: 0900hrs
Kiambethu Tea Farm, one of the Kenya's oldest tea farms, is located in Limuru, just 40 minutes drive from the heart of Nairobi and provides a tranquil insight in the life of a settler farm. A visit to the Kiambethu tea farm makes a memorable time and it includes delicious meals, a visit to the indigenous forest, insights to the making and growing of tea provided by the hosts.
The tour starts by visiting and having a scenic view of the escarpement of the Great Rift Valley. Thereafter, the tour continues to Kigwa Estate, a partially self sustained coffee plantation and dairy farm which is close to the famous Karura Forest.
Return to Nairobi in the evening.
