{"id":112,"date":"2023-07-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:54:20","slug":"things-to-do-in-nairobi-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/things-to-do-in-nairobi-national-park.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Things to do When You Visit  Nairobi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nairobicarrentalservices.com\/parks\/nairobi-national-park.html\">Nairobi National Park<\/a><\/strong> is Kenya\u2019s first park established in 1946 just 7 kilometers away from skyscrapers in Nairobi\u2019s City centre on a 117.2&nbsp;km\u00b2 land with a rhino sanctuary protecting over 50 endangered rhinoceros and other wildlife animals in the park include the lions, buffaloes, elephants, cheetahs, warthogs and gazelles not forgetting over 400 bird species reported in the wetlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The park has several interesting activities that tourists can enjoy during their safari and they include;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/family-safari2-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Game\nviewing<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The park management organizes morning, afternoon and evening or\nnocturnal game drives in the park for visitors to sight some of the park\u2019s\nmajor game like the elephants, cheetahs, warthogs, lions, leopards, rhinos,\nbuffaloes, wildebeest, elands, zebras, hippos and gazelles among others in the\ncompany of a game ranger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Bird\nwatching<\/strong> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Bird lovers have a perfect opportunity to spot some of Africa\u2019s\nfinest bird species in this park and enjoy photography to keep a great memory\nof the safari. The bird species found here include Egyptian goose,\nsacred ibis, malachite kingfisher, wagtail, yellow billed stork African crested\ncranes, African fish eagle, kori bustard, secretary bird, marabou stork,\nR\u00fcppell\u2019s&nbsp;vulture, martial eagle and great white pelican among the many\nothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Turtle and\ntortoise watching<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Turtle and tortoise watching is available at the Nairobi Mamba\nvillage as visitors hold them while taking photos, study about their behavior,\nlifespan and reproduction among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Walking\ntrails<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors can also take nature walks within the\nswamps along the designated trails of the park to view birds in the company of\nthe game ranger and enjoy photography with the beautiful views of Nairobi\nskyscrapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you a planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/nairobicarrentalservices.com\/kenya-safaris\/nairobi-city-tour.html\">tour Nairobi city<\/a>  this season and would love to visit the national park , we at Tristar Africa Skimmer Safaris will be more than delighted to organize a car plus guide at affordable rates. You can contact us now by calling us on  +<strong>254-713510387 <\/strong>or send us an email to <a href=\"mailto:info@nairobicarrentalservices.com\"><strong>info@nairobicarrentalservices.com<\/strong><\/a> and the reservations team will handle you with great hospitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Nairobi National Park is Kenya\u2019s first park established in 1946 just 7 kilometers away from skyscrapers in Nairobi\u2019s City centre on a 117.2&nbsp;km\u00b2 land with a rhino sanctuary protecting over 50 endangered rhinoceros and other wildlife animals in the park include the lions, buffaloes, elephants, cheetahs, warthogs and gazelles not forgetting over 400 bird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nairobicarrentalservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}