Nairobi National Park

So, if you drive for about 20 minutes down Langata Road in Nairobi towards Karen (yes, I had a Farm in Africa Karen), you hit the Nairobi National Park. You can take your car right into the park and pay about 1000 Kenya Schillings a person (about $17 bucks) and you are in the wilderness. Some say the park serves as a corridor for wildlife to the Rift Valley. Not too sure about that but you do get to see zebra, hartebeests, giraffes, baboons and other critters roaming freely, ungated and minding their own business. We spent about 4 hours driving around and it felt like we left Nairobi for the day on a safari. Check out the photos below but dont get too excited. We didn’t see any lions or leopards. Or elephants (tembo in Kswahili!)…

giraffe lovers

what they call damns and marshy swamps

zebra in the grass

zebra running from the car

bird on a wire

the stare down

zebra family – note the city in the background

pedro and chery’s pink hippo

forget the name of these fellas

no baboons in sight

monkey in a tree

not sure what berry this is

the majestic yet loner ostrich

giraffe hangin in nairobi

Derek also posted a cool video of our explorations.