Tour example
Nairobi in a Day
A single day that turns a layover or a spare Saturday into 120+ species. Riverine forest at first light, open plains through the morning, a dam on the way back.
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- Duration
- 1 day
- Pace
- Dawn start, back by mid-afternoon
- Regions
- 1
- Targets
- 5
Itinerary
Day by day
- 06:15
Nairobi National Park — forest first
In at Main Gate before the light hardens. Riverine forest along the Athi for robin-chats, turacos and the early raptor movement, then out onto the plains as the thermals build.
- 09:30
The plains and the Athi dams
Slow circuit east for Secretarybird, White-bellied Bustard and the whistling-thorn belt where Grey-crested Helmetshrike holds on. Dams for Saddle-billed Stork and waterbirds.
- 13:00
Kabete Dam
Out of the park and onto the dam for the duck assemblage — Hottentot Teal, Southern Pochard, Black Crake in the reed edge. A scope session to finish.