Kenya Activities

 

Meet the local Samburu and Maasai people, who sing and jump as a welcome to their village, proud to share their culture and still firm believers today that "a man without culture is like a zebra without

stripes."

Other optional activities to participate while in Kenya:

• Take a camel ride in Sweetwaters or across the Samburu River.
• Get a bird's eye-view as you sail in a hot air balloon across the Maasai Mara.
• Pet Morani, the tame rhino, at the Rhino Sanctuary in Sweetwaters.
• Plant a tree in Sweetwaters or Amboseli.
• Boat through the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center at Sweetwaters.
• Learn about the medicinal properties of plants on nature walks in various areas of Kenya.
• Fish at Lake Victoria.
• Enjoy sun-downers in the bush as you watch the setting sun.
• Visit Cynthia Moss' Elephant Research Station in the shadows of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
• Meet Dr. Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton's research station of Save the Elephant in Samburu.
• Meet Mary Wykstra from the Cheetah Conservation Fund-Kenya.
• Visit Daphne Sheldrick's Animal Orphanage in Nairobi.
• Visit Karen Blixen's home in Nairobi, Author of Out of Africa.
• Visit Giraffe Centre in Nairobi and hand-feed the rare Rothchild's Giraffe.
• Enjoy a game run at the Nairobi National Park.

DID YOU KNOW?

African elephants can eat up to 500 pounds of vegetation a day.