Day Tours around Nairobi: Nairobi Day Tour Highlights and Places

The Day Tours from Nairobi are plenty and you will always find a place to go to Day Tour Pakcages around Nairobiaround or outside Nairobi. Some places are near Nairobi while others are full days drive from the city. Most of them are however not too far from Nairobi and you will be in time to catch your evening connecting flight from Jomo Kenyatta International. Find out below about the best Nairobi Day Tours.

Nairobi National Park Day Tours around Nairobi

Nairobi national park day trips are some of the easiest to do since they are only for half a day. Nairobi Animal Park is less than 10 minutes away from the city centre and is the only national park in the world to be in the boundaries of a capital. The park is less than 120 sq km in size and is fenced on one side only to allow animal migrate from the other.

Nairobi national parks main attractions include the over 50 species of animals including the lions, buffalo, cheetahs, crocodile, hippos, rhinos, giraffe, impala, elands, wildebeest, hartebeest, hyena, leopards and many others. The Nairobi national park game drives are full of fun as you have many places to visit in the park including ivory burning monument, kingfisher picnic site, Mokoyiet valley view point and the river walking safari.

Nairobi national park day tour safari is also ideal for birding since it has more than 300 species of immigrant and resident bird species. The birds of Nairobi Park include but not limited to the hammerkop, African crested crane, kingfisher, fish eagle, martial eagle, vultures, hadada ibis, sacred ibis, kori bustard, egrets, ox-peckers, secretary bird and many others.

Amboseli National Park Day Tour Packages around Nairobi

Amboseli is a coined from a Masai word ‘empusel’ which means a place of salty dust. Amboseli as a park is on the leeward side of Kilimanjaro Mountain and the views of the mountain are just astounding from the Kenyan side. Amboseli national park is located some 250km from Nairobi and it takes you 3.5hrs to get there.

Amboseli national park day trip from Nairobi is popular due to the view of mt Kilimanjaro which stands at more than 5800m above sea level. The mountain is called the ‘Roof of Africa’ and has the best views from Amboseli national park. The Amboseli main attraction is this mountain which can be seen early in the morning before it hides behind the clouds from around 10.30am in the morning.

Animals to be found in Amboseli include the lions, cheetahs, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, elands, Oryx, hyenas, gazelles, jackals, impalas, baboons and many others. The Amboseli has animals at every turn and the population of elephants is just too high.

Lake Nakuru National Park Day Tour Packages Around Nairobi

Lake Nakuru National Park is 160km North West of Nairobi and it lies on the Great Rift Valley system. Lake Nakuru is park of more than 8 rift valley lakes in Kenya which have a characteristic alkaline nature. The Nakuru national park day tour packages are available on any day from Nairobi and it takes 2.5hrs to get there including a 5hr game drive and a lunch break.

Nakuru national park day tour itineraries are fun as you get to see the millions of flamingos in the lake as they feed on the algae that grows on the alkaline lake. Lake Nakuru has more than 400 species of birds and rhinos. The animals found in Lake Nakuru national park include the rhinos, lions, hippos, leopards, giraffes, zebra, buffalo, gazelle, baboons and many others.

A day tour to Lake Nakuru includes a game drive around the lake circuit and a visit to baboon cliff, the pelican point and the makalia falls which are great places to see. The Nakuru one day trip is fun for bird watchers since there are many birds here and the colorful flamingos which make Nakuru the largest bird spectacle in the world.

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