What are the best things to do during your layover at Crowne Plaza NBO? Nairobi’s “big five” of visitor attractions includes:
Sheldrick Orphans’ Project
Get up close and personal with baby elephants, Maxwell the rhino, and other orphaned creatures at this private, nonprofit reserve. Since it was established in 1977, the project has successfully rescued and raised nearly 300 young elephants and 17 rhinos.
Nairobi National Park
View and photograph a wide range of African wildlife — rhinos, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and more than 400 bird species — at a small but significant game reserve set against a backdrop of Nairobi’s high-rise towers.
Karen Blixen Museum
Famously set at “the foot of the Ngong Hills” on the outskirts of Nairobi, this was home to Danish author Karen Blixen from 1917 to 1931. Many of the encounters she wrote about in Out of Africa and other books took place in or near the house.
The Giraffe Center
Created by the nonprofit African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, the center affords visitors an opportunity to learn more and get an up-close view of endangered Rothschild giraffe — especially from an elevated viewing platform that puts you face-to-face with the world’s tallest creature.
Nairobi National Museum
Founded in 1910, Kenya’s foremost museum includes galleries dedicated to nation’s the human and natural history with particular emphasis on anthropology (The Story of Human Kind) and wildlife.
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