Day Trip
Depart your Nairobi Hotel 7 am and drive to the Hells Gate National Park with stops at viewpoints to marvel at the scenic Great Rift Valley escarpment. Hell’s Gate is one of Kenya’s smaller National Parks, which can be explored on foot and do some cycling.
Arrive at the gate of Hell’s Gate around mid-morning, start the biking tour for 2 hours within hell’s gate, some people will opt to drive which is also allowed. Animals seen here include Bushbucks, Dikdiks, Giraffes, Gazelles, Gnus, Hartebeests, Impalas, Klipspringers, Buffaloes, Hyraxes, Zebras, Hyenas, Jackals, Mongooses, Baboons, Monkeys and Porcupines amongst others. The park has historically been an important home for the rare lammergeyer vultures.
From 11 am, visit the gorges for 1 hour, capture beautiful panoramas of the gorge’s small thin depressions of land mass where you can walk underneath.
Around 12pm return the bike at the gate, on the way visit the Maasai community. Then at 1pm for Lunch at Naivasha Fishermans camp. At 2pm, enjoy a relaxing boat ride on Lake Naivasha where you can see some of the local wildlife which includes hippos, buffalo, fish eagles, pelicans and much more for 1 hour.
End of the tour drive back to Nairobi arriving around 6pm.