Nairobi Off The Beaten Path

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Paradise Lost Resort is situated around 10km far from the city of Nairobi and is the largest picnic site in whole of Kenya. If renting car you can easily reach it by taking the direction of east (Thika road) and getting to Kiambu road.
There are number of facilities such as, nature trails, horse or camel ridings, fishing, boating, bird watching etc. The most interesting, at least for me, was cave explorings. This caves used to be home for Mau Mau rebels during their resistance to British rule.
The local travel agent should charge 100 $ for a day trip but if you smart it could cost far cheaper then that. Renting car is the cheapest way, especially if not single visitor. Even taxi could cost less then travel agents, if one is good in burgains.

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The most often question I could hear from the adults was, "how come you dared to stroll around all alone?" They told me mzungus never visiting inside Kibera feeling unsafe there. To be honest, I felt more safe inside Kibera then in some specific parts of Nairobi, such as Tea Room is.
Kibera has the most beautiful kids I ever saw in whole of Kenya, they are so cute and very friendly. Every kid have wish me greetings by inevitable "jambo" and "how are you" but in some twisted kind of pronouncing. Then I realized its the only english they are able to say. Most of the kids from Kibera dont go to school because their parents cannot afford to pay school fee. Life isn't fair here and most of this kids will never get any oportunity for improving their living conditions.

It is located in the National Museum of Nairobi grounds, and it is a live exhibition.

You will see many different plants and snakes, see the aquarium with many different fish, birds, lizards and turtles.

You should spare at least one hour to cover this place here.

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The tourist village of the Bomas in Kenya is quite popular.
I visited it while in Nairobi a few days before leaving the country.

To be honest I was not thrilled but it was a change for us. I expected it much better and the light coming from the windows around the huge round room prevents taking good photos.
Many schools come here and the day we were the room was full of schoolchildren.

Here they try to preserve and promote the cultural values of various tribal groups of Kenya, and you can walk through the beautiful gardens where there are displayed traditional villages of several Kenyan tribes.

The Massai Mara is the world’s best wildlife destination.
Famous for the wildbeest migration.

It is a popular spectacle not to be missed when in Nairobi.
It starts around August and the herds stay until November and afterwards they move south into the Serengeti.

The Arboretum is a quiet tree park near the State House with lots of exotic trees shrubs within walking distance from the city centre. It’s a great place to hang out if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of Nairobi for a while. During the day there are lots of people walking there, doing sports or just relaxing on the benches, so I felt quite safe.

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Taita, known also as Wadawida, is coastal tribe but originally coming from the Central Africa alongside other Bantu tribes. They inhabited Taita Hills, very fertile area. The hills provided the Taita with refuge from raids and sttacks by the neigboring Maasai.
Nowadays most of the Taita are christians, but in the past times they had in particularly interesting burial ceremony. The person who died were buried for the period of one year, at which time their body would be exhumed. The skull would be severed from the rest of the body and taken to a sacred cave, which can be found in many parts of Taita Hills.

Kiberia is located approx 5 kilometres southwest from the centre of Nairobi and is much larger than you can imagine. There is an estimated 1 million people here though numbers range from 600,000 to 1.2 million people.

Walking through the fringes of Kiberia shows the lowest of the low living as best they can in a virtual city of shacks including hotels, restuarants and shops but not as I know them. This is maybe not the safest place to visit but is worth it if you are keen to see part of the 'real' Nairobi and Africa.

Kiberia is the largest of Nairobi's slums and, apparently, the second largest urban slum in Africa.