Visit & explore Nairobi National park Kenya
Visit & explore Nairobi National park -Kenya wildlife safari holidays
Visit & explore Nairobi National park – “The World’s only Wildlife Capital” Nairobi National Park is unique by being the only protected area in the world with a variety of animals and birds close to a capital city.
The park is a principal attraction for visitors to Nairobi.
Nairobi National Park is one of the most successful of Kenya’s rhino sanctuaries that is already generating a stock for reintroduction in the species former range and other upcoming sanctuaries.
Due to this success, it is one of the few parks where a visitor can be certain of seeing a black rhino in its natural habitat.
Birds of Nairobi national park
-Maasai Ostrich
-African Darter
-African Finfoot
-Dwarf Bittern
-Goliath Heron
-Saddle-billed Stork
-Spur-winged Goose
-African Crowned Eagle
-Secretarybird
-African Fish Eagle
-Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
-Black -chested Snake-Eagle
-Gabar Goshawk
-Augur Buzzard
-Tawny Eagle
-Bateleur
-Shelly’s Francolin
-Grey crowned Crane
-Kori Bustard,
-White-bellied Bustard
-Hartlaub’s Bustard
-Bronze- winged Courser
Wildlife of Nairobi national park
A short drive out of Nairobi’s central business district is the Nairobi National Park. Wide open grass plains and backdrop of the city scrapers, scattered acacia bush play host to a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. Visitors can enjoy the park’s picnic sites, three campsites and the walking trails for hikers.
How to Get to Nairobi national park?
visit & explore Nairobi national park within the main capital of Nairobi so you will be picked up from the hotel and drive for 30 minutes to the park gate before you start your game drive.
Road conditions and safari tracks in the park?
The roads in Nairobi National Park are excellently maintained, although 4 x 4 vehicles recommended during the rainy season. Being gravel or murram surfaced, all major circuits in the park are passable year-round except in some small tracks with black cotton soil which become waterlogged after the rains. There are several designated picnic sites within the park; where you are entitled to get out of your vehicle, in the Nairobi National Park Bird watching tour
-Impala Observation Point: where you have a panoramic view of the park, a swamp below it has a lot of activity
-The Ivory Burning Site: wherein 1989 former President Moi set fire to 12 tons of Elephant Ivory in a bid to eradicate the mass massacre of Africa’s Elephants.
-Kingfisher Picnic Site: A green shaded area with huge acacia trees that host an array of birds in feeding parties, ideal for early morning birdwatching, the picnic site is named after a resident Striped Kingfisher that has made the campsite it’s home. Lions are often encountered napping on the picnic chairs during the day
-Mokoyeti Picnic Site: An open clifftop site with shaded tables. This is where two rivers meet Kiserian and Mbagathi, the best place to see the shy and elusive African Finfoot
-Hippo Pools and Nature Trail: A short self-guided nature trail (guided by Kenya Wildlife Service rangers) leads out of a shaded picnic area along the Athi River and offers the opportunity of viewing variety of birds such as nesting Vultures, Kingfisher, Woodhoopes, Hornbills, Barbets, Lovebirds in tree holes
Birding in these areas tend to be fruitful and gratifying because you alight from the vehicle and get a chance of walking and interacting closer with nature
Other attractions within the Nairobi National Park include:
Nairobi Animal Orphanage
Established in Nov 1963 as a refuge for wild animals found abandoned orphaned or injured in the wild
Nairobi Safari Walk
Opened in the year 2000; you view animals from vantage points on a circuit of raised wooden boardwalks and gravel pathways
Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
Founded in 1987 for abandoned, injured baby elephants/rhinos
Open to public for one hour starting from 11:00- 12:00 hrs
Suggested safari and Birding Itinerary
0600hrs: Pick up from Hotel
0630hrs: Check in the park and start day birding tour in Nairobi National park
0530hrs: Drop off to Hotel/Airport.
Where to stay in Nairobi national park?
Most people stay in hotels in the heart of Nairobi, some of the hotels include Hemingways Nairobi, villa losa-kempinski, Eka hotel, Sankara hotel Nairobi, masai Lodge but those who wish to stay in the national park can stay at the Nairobi Tented Camp.
Best time to visit & explore Nairobi national park.
Nairobi national park is open all year round for safaris there is no best time when you should visit the park except the grass is high in the end of the rain season but still wildlife can be seen.