Nairobi
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodations: Tamarind Tree Hotel
After breakfast, enjoy full day excursions in Nairobi.
Giraffe Centre – The giraffe centre is a wonderful and refreshing experience undertaken during African Mecca's Out Of Africa excursion starting in Nairobi. The tour gives a completely up close and personal interaction where guests have the opportunity to view giraffes as well as feed them.
Daphne Sheldrick – Daphne Sheldrick's Animal Orphanage, which helps to rehabilitate severely traumatized orphaned animals thus enabling them to live their natural lifestyle once reintroduced into the wild.
Kiambethu Farm - Just a short drive from the heart of Nairobi, Kiambethu Farm at Limuru provides a tranquil insight into life on a settler farm. Situated at 7,200 ft., Kiambethu was bought and farmed by AB McDonell in 1910. He was a pioneer in the tea industry being one of the first to make and sell tea commercially in Kenya - now one of Kenya’s largest exports. Five generations have lived on the farm and it is currently run by his granddaughter Fiona Vernon. The farm house is set within beautiful gardens surrounded by acres of tea and indigenous forest - home to the Colobus monkey (Lunch will be served at the Farm)
Later drive back to Nairobi and visit National Museum - The Museum was initiated in 1910 by a group of enthusiastic naturalists under the then East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society [currently the East African Natural History Society (EANHS)], who needed a place to keep and preserve their collections of various specimens. The first site for the museum was at the present Nyayo House, which later became too small and a larger building was put up in 1922 where the Nairobi Serena Hotel stands today.
The artworks and materials used in the fabrication of outdoor sculptures, the landscaping and the botanic gardens, link to the four pillars of Kenya’s national heritage i.e. nature, culture, history and contemporary art.
In the evening enjoy dinner at Seven’s Sea Food Restaurant.