Location of Nairobi national park.
Nairobi national park is strategically located approximately 7 kilometers south of Nairobi’s city center, within the Nairobi province of Kenya, offering a unique blend of urban and wild experience, with the Nairobi city skyline visible in the distance from the various points within the park, which covers an area of approximately 117 square kilometers, that is situated at an altitude of about 1680 meters above the seal level, and features a diverse range of the habitats, including the open grasslands, acacia bushlands, and wooded valleys, making it an easily accessible destination for both local and then international tourists, providing a refreshing escape from the urban environment while still offering the amenities and services of a major city, with the closeness to the city that allows the tourists to combine a wildlife experience with a visit to the city’s attractions such as museums, markets, and restaurants.
And also making it a popular safari destinations for the day trips, picnics, and then family outings, while its location near Mombasa Highway and the Nairobi Southern Bypass makes it easily accessible by road, and its closeness to Nairobi city airport and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport allows for the convenient access by air, and the park’s location within the Athi-Kapiti plains ecosystems, which supports a wide range of the wildlife, including the big four mammals of the big five mammals that includes the lions, rhinos, buffaloes and leopards that makes the park an important conservation area, and its unique location has earned it the nickname ‘’Kenya’s backyard safari’’, providing an unparalleled experience for the visitors to experience the thrill of the Africa’s wildlife in the heart of a major city, and with its stunning views of the surrounding landscape, including the Ngong hills, and among many others, the park offers a truly unique and unforgettable safari experience for all who visit.
Nairobi national park.
Nairobi National Park is a premier wildlife destination and one of Kenya’s most popular national parks, this was the first park to be gazetted in Kenya on December 16th 1946, the park is located about 7km (4.3 mi) south of Nairobi, Nairobi national park is the sole wildlife park in the entire world that is very close to the city. The park is set on 45 square miles and then it lies about 5000 to 6000 feet (1500 to 1800 meters) above the sea level.
Nairobi national park is characterized by the thick woods near the city outskirts, that is the rolling hills and then valleys and partly thick woods confluence of the various, the park’s vegetation is of the dry transitional savanna type with acacia and other thorny varieties cape chestnut, muhuhu, then park has other attractive tree species hence providing homes for various wildlife in the park. Nairobi national park is very exceptional with the rhino sanctuary, the park is a home for over 100 mammal species where the park is a home of the big four mammals of the big five mammals that includes the rhinos, buffaloes, leopards and lions. The park has other diverse numbers of animal species like giraffes, zebras, waterbucks, antelopes, reptiles and many others in the park to fascinate while on an African safari with African Vacation Safaris. Nairobi national park is a stunning birding safari destination which is a home to over 520 bird species with over 20 of which are seasonal European migrants. The park is a home for various bird species like lesser kestrel, Sooty falcon, Martial eagle, Pallid harrier, secretary bird, and White-bellied bustard and among many others.
Nairobi national park is known for Sheldrick animal orphanage that was founded in 1963 that is located inside the park that is known as the rehabilitation center for the orphaned baby elephants and rhinos. The distance between Nairobi and Nairobi national park is approximately is 15.6km through A104 road that takes only 28 minutes by the tourists to reach the park by the road transport. On a Kenya safari the tourists are intrigued by the park’s attractions like Ivory burning site monument, Nairobi safari walk, walking trails at hippo pool, Sheldrick animal orphanage, spacious then conducive accommodating picnic areas, that makes your Kenya safari and Africa safari wonderful.
This makes the tourists to fully enhanced and then participate in various safari activities in the park that offers the tourists the unforgettable safari memories. Besides the park’s smallest size and its closeness to the city, the park is known for its large and then varied wildlife species then as Kenya’s number one safari destination with rhinos that is Kifaru Ark which means (Kifaru meaning rhino is Swahili) this is one of Kenya’s most successful rhinoceros sanctuaries.
The aim of Kifaru ark is for the anti-poaching in the park, this is the only safari destination in Kenya where the visitors can spot the black rhinoceros in their natural habitat. The park has the highest population of the black rhinos and a good population of the southern white rhinos and the Eastern Browse (Black) Rhino (Diceros bicorni micheali) in the wild these intelligent and attractive species have inhabited for over 60 million years.
Nairobi national park is known for the walking trails at the hippo pools that begin from the picnic area while following the Athi river banks, then the route is controlled by the Kenya wildlife service rangers this is the unique area in the park where tourists explore the place freely without any guide because it’s safe for the tourists. Nairobi national park has various herbivores species like zebras, elands, buffaloes and among others. On a Kenya safari, the tourists enjoy Ivory Burning site monument experience, walking trails at hippo pools, Nairobi safari walk, spacious picnic experience, Sheldrick orphanage experience, game drives, and bird watching and among many others.
African Vacation Safaris’ tour consultants are present to offer you and provide you the wonderful Nairobi national park packages from one day safari experience, or with the combined safaris that is Tsavo west national park, Tsavo East national park, Maasai Mara national reserve, Lake Nakuru national park, Amboseli national park and among many others you will not get disappointed.