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The Go-Down Arts Centre, a converted warehouse in the Industrial Area, contains 10 separate art studios and is rapidly becoming a hub for Nairobis burgeoning arts scene, bringing together visual and performing arts with regular exhibitions, shows, workshops and open cultural nights
Endangered Species Enclosure
This 700-acre drive-through enclosure next to the Morani Information Centre is home to four out of the worlds last remaining northern white rhinos, an ever-so-close-to-being-extinct subspecies. The rhinos were brought here from the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic in 2009, bu
Morani Information Centre
Part education or interpretation centre, part museum, this three-roomed structure is appealingly interactive and comes with the instructions to Please touch the leopard skin, antelope horns and other similar objects. Youll also find displays and information on Ol Pejetas predator-p
Crescent Island
This private island sanctuary can be reached by boat, or by driving across the narrow, swampy causeway from Sanctuary Farm. Its one of the few places in the Rift Valley where you can walk among giraffes, zebras, waterbucks, impalas and countless bird species. Lucky visitors might e
Bio
Dont be fooled by the wooden turquoise cages; this humble-looking place is one of the worldsmost renowned snake research centres. It specialises in antivenin research, and also acts as an emergency service for snake-bite victims throughout the region. Passionate guides lead excelle
Chimpanzee Sanctuary
Home to 39 profoundly damaged chimpanzees rescued from captivity across Africa and further afield, Ol Pejetas Chimp Sanctuary encompasses two large enclosures cut in two by the Ewaso Nyiro River. Theres an elevated observation post and keepers are usually on hand to explain a littl
Colobus Conservation Centre
Notice the monkeys clambering on rope ladders over the road? The ladders are the work of the Colobus Conservation Centre, which aims to protect the Angolan black-and-white colobus monkey, a once-common species now restricted to a few isolated pockets of forest south of Mombasa. It
Lamu Museum
The best museum in town is housed in a grand Swahili warehouse on the waterfront. This is as good a gateway as you’ll get into Swahili culture and that of the archipelago in particular. Of note are the displays of traditional women’s dress – those who consider the head-to-toe bui-b
Karen Blixens House & Museum
If you loved Out of Africa , youll love this place. This museum is the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The museum is set in expansive garden
Kitale Museum
Founded on the collection of butterflies, birds and ethnographic memorabilia left to the nation in 1967 by the late Lieutenant Colonel Stoneham, this museum has an interesting range of ethnographic displays of the Pokot, Akamba, Marakwet and Turkana peoples. There are also any numb
Elsamere
Stippled with sisal, yellow fever trees and candelabra euphorbia, this is the former home of the late Joy Adamson of Born Free fame. She bought the house in 1967 with her husband George, and did much of her painting, writing and conservation work here until her murder in 1980. Gues
Shetani Lava Flows
About 4km west of the Chyulu gate of Tsavo West National Park, on the road to Amboseli, are the spectacular Shetani lava flows. ‘Shetani ’ means ‘devil’ in Kiswahili: the flows were formed only a few hundred years ago and local peoples believed that it was the devil himself emergin
National Museum
Kenya’s wonderful National Museum, housed in an imposing building amid lush, leafy grounds just outside the centre, has a good range of cultural and natural history exhibits. Aside from the exhibits, check out the life-sized fibreglass model of pachyderm celebrity Ahmed, the massiv
Giraffe Centre
This centre, which protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, combines serious conservation with enjoyable activities. You can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a raised wooden structure, which is quite an experience. You may also spot warthogs snuf
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Occupying a plot within Nairobi National Park, this non-profit trust was established in 1977, shortly after the death of David Sheldrick, who served as the anti-poaching warden of Tsavo National Park. Together with his wife Daphne, David pioneered techniques for raising orphaned bl
Nairobi National Park
Welcome to Kenya’s most accessible yet incongruous safari experience. Set on the city’s southern outskirts, Nairobi National Park (at 117 sq km, it’s one of Africa’s smallest) has abundant wildlife which can, in places, be viewed against a backdrop of city skyscrapers and airliners
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