5 hours (06:00 or 14:00 start) · From USD 95 per person · Budget
A Nairobi National Park half-day tour is a 5-hour guided game drive in the only national park inside a capital city, 7 km from Nairobi CBD. You can see lions, rhinos, giraffes, buffalo and zebra against the city skyline, with hotel or airport pickup at 06:00 or 14:00.
Pickup from your hotel or JKIA, 4–5 hours of game driving through plains, forest edge and the hippo pools, then drop-off at your hotel, a restaurant or the airport.
All year. Mornings (06:00) give the best predator activity; July–October and January–February are driest.
A half-day tour takes about 5 hours including pickup, with 3–4 hours of actual game driving. A full-day tour runs 7–8 hours and can add the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage or Giraffe Centre.
Yes. The park's main gate is about 20–30 minutes from JKIA, so a 6–8 hour layover is enough for a half-day game drive if you have a Kenya entry authorisation.
Lions, black rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, hippo and over 400 bird species. There are no elephants in the park, so it covers four of the Big Five.
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