Nairobi in 3 days: the only capital city with a national park inside it, the most moving elephant orphanage in Africa, Karen Blixen's farmhouse and roasted goat under the Ngong Hills.
The world's only national park inside a capital city: lions, rhinos, cheetahs and 400 bird species. At dawn.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideOrphaned baby elephants mud-bathing and bottle-feeding in their Nairobi National Park sanctuary.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideAfrica's most famous restaurant: all-you-can-eat roasted meats carved at the table until you lower the flag.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideIndian-Kenyan, Lebanese, Ethiopian and European restaurants in Nairobi's most vibrant suburb.
The actual farmhouse from Out of Africa, with the Ngong Hills behind exactly as Blixen described them.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideHand-feed the most endangered giraffe subspecies from eye level. Their 45cm prehensile tongue is extraordinary.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideRift Valley on one side, Nairobi plain on the other. The hills Out of Africa was written beneath.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideCharcoal-roasted goat, eaten with the hands, with maize porridge and kale. Nairobi at its most genuine.
East Africa's finest museum: Leakey fossil collections, the Cradle of Humankind, 50 Kenyan peoples.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideFair-trade handmade ceramic beads in Karen — the most ethical and beautiful Kenyan souvenir.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe finest city view in Nairobi: the modern skyline against the East African afternoon light.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideNairobi's oldest fine dining restaurant since 1969: Swahili curry, coconut prawns, tilapia from Lake Victoria.
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