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Nairobi is Kenya’s capital city. In addition to its urban core, the city has Nairobi National Park making Kenya to be the only country in the world to have a national park just 15 minutes’ drive away. This is a large protected area known for breeding the endangered black rhinos and home to giraffes, zebras, lions and much more alongside alluring bird species.
Next to Nairobi National Park, is a well-regarded elephant orphanage operated by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Nairobi is often used as a jumping-off point for safari that take tourists to other touristic places in Kenya. We advise you to take one of these day trips from Nairobi and you can find yourself on top of a volcano, at the bottom of the longest rift on earth, on a Big 5 safari or cruising across a lake full of hippos.
For day trips from Nairobi, you can head north-west to the Great Rift Valley, that 7000 kilometres long jagged scar, that can be seen from space. Filled with dormant rugged volcanoes, soda and freshwater lakes and an abundance of wildlife and birds. To the east of Nairobi, is Athi and the wildlife migration corridors that allow all of safaris best to pass between Nairobi National Park and Amboseli.
From Nairobi you can still head to the east for Mount Kenya, the vast Laikipia dedicated wildlife conservancies and of course a drive to the equator. Alternatively, head south towards Tanzania, as the altitude falls from 2000 meters to below sea level, the temperatures rise and you hit the arid lands and soda lakes of Magadi.
These amazing day trips will take you no longer than a day and will guarantee that you will feel being so indulged into nature just a few hours away from Nairobi.
In eastern and central Africa, each country is unique with some having more endemic bird species than others have. It’s important for you to share with us what you’re looking for and work with our ornithology specialists. Our luxury birding safaris guarantee you to stay in the very best located camps and lodges to maximize your chances of seeing the birds that interest you most.
Whether you want to tick off a list of your target species or delve longer for the ultimate birding photography moments, bird watching on an Africa safari is a hugely rewarding safari experience not only to the avid birders but also for the beginners who will equally enjoy what Africa birding destinations has to offer.
Our guests tend to ask what the perfect African birding safari itinerary looks like and to be honest, we don’t have a straight-forward answer.
To answer you in brief, each guest has a unique taste when it comes to enquiring about an African birding safari and this could be based on personality that’s strongly influenced by expectations. We have given a few good to check itineraries to serve as bird watching travel inspirations.
We don’t offer Africa as a bucket list destination, but a rich continent with diversity, meaningful purpose to travel, cultural mosaic and of course, unmatched habitats that have given room to birds and wildlife. We have identified Africa’s most intriguing bird watching safaris that you should consider during your bird watching holiday planning.
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