Nairobi Day Tour

It was going to be my first time to the Karura Forest.  For a majority of us the Karua forest was a no go zone since it was home to crime.  The forest located a few kilometeres form the city centre has been famed for the various crimes that have taken place at the forest for a long time.

However, this has has changed as the friends of Karura and the Kenya Forestry Services have rehabilitated the forest and made it a lovely place to visit while in the city.  For me and my friends, the plan was to ensure that we had left a make in our memories, we therefore first stopped at the Life style Nakumatt shopping complex at the heart of the city and ensured that we had bought ourselves enough foods and snacks for a picnic in the forest. 

Having shopped and refuled our car, we were off to the Karura forest, we drove towards the muthaiga round about and past the Muthaiga golf club.  Being a Saturday, the jam has started building up.  After about 20 minutes we were urshed into the Karura forest, we paid our gate entrance fee and guided by the Kenya forest service warden.  We easily joked with the rest of the team how we had become travelers of kenya.  It was great to just visualise how intresting the experience ahead was bound to turn out. 

The forest is home to a 50mtrs tall water fall that is a spectacular view.  The indigeous trees at the forest only goes to show how much work has gone into rehabilitation of the forest.  I must admit for the first time I appreciated what Wangari Mathai has alway advocated for. I now understood the importance of having our environment green.  There are the Mau Mau Caves that you must not miss!  The forest also a walking and joging ground for a majority of the residence of Muthaiga.  Having visited the forest and enjoyed its senercies, it was time for us to enjoy a picnic , click our camera the more and bid farewell to the Karua forest. 

For nature lovers, it is a great aftenoon visit for the entire family and would recommend it for anyone visiting Nairobi.