Visitors can find things not so common in other parts of Africa, such as nice theatres showing the latest films, expensive restaurants serving every type of food, as well as Internet facilities, faxes and any other sort of modern technology you may want to use. The city is constantly alive, especially at night.

Besides being a convenient place to take care of administrative matters and contact people back home, Nairobi has much to offer to travellers. If you want to hang out, there is a wide array of restaurants, clubs, pubs and discos to choose from.

While in Nairobi, be sure to visit the City Market, the National Museum, the Arboretum (excellent collection of East African flora) and the superb Kenya Railway Museum.

Exhibits about the period leading to independence can be seen at the Kenya National Archives. There are casinos at the Safari Park Hotel and the Inter-Continental Hotel and there's also Sunday-afternoon horse racing.

At the facility, you can feed the giraffes and the gift shop has some of the best prices we found in Nairobi. However, the Giraffe Manor (the manor house turned into a hotel) elsewhere on the grounds has some of the steepest daily rates in the city but then it's the only place where giraffes may join you for meals.

This excursion to Langatta is often combined with a visit to the former home of Karen Blixen (who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen), author of Out of Africa. Blixen's farmhouse, which was presented to the Kenyan government by Denmark, is now a museum, it's located nextdoor to the Karen College.

Langatta also has The Bomas of Kenya which is a terrific cultural center that regularly hosts traditional song and dance performances.

A day trip (a two-hour drive each way) can be made to Lake Magadi to visit Olorgesailie in the Rift Valley for its prehistoric campsite. The scenic region inhabited by Masai farmers has a wide variety of birds.

Excursions from Nairobi
Nairobi City Tour (MS11) - 4 hrs - daily at 9.00
This short tour takes you through and round the growing Capital of Kenya. Also included is a visit to the City Market, Parliament Building, and The National Museum of Kenya and Snake Park.

Karen Blixen & The Giraffe Centre (MS12)
3 hrs - daily at 14.30
You will be picked up from your hotel and driven to the Karen Blixen Museum, situated 30 minutes drive outside Nairobi City Centre.

Here you have the opportunity to experience the former residence of the world famous Danish writer Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) and to admire the view of the Ngong Hills from the beautiful gardens. Proceed to Giraffe Centre where you come face to face with the tallest mammal on earth; having a chance to even feed then with your bare hand.

Nairobi National Park (MS13)
4 hrs - daily at 14.00
An afternoon spent game viewing in The Nairobi National Park; just 8 Km from the city centre will give you the opportunity to see many of the Savannah game such as giraffe, zebra, impala, buffalo, warthog and lion to mention but a few.