1. Have breakfast with giraffes
Tea, toast and giraffe drool.
The vast windows letting in light at the Giraffe Manor (Giraffe Farm) hotel are wide open, allowing visitors to stick their necks out or deer to pop their heads in to say good morning.
Giraffe Manor Hotel was built in 1930 and serves tourists all year round, except April and May. Admission price in 2013 is 485 USD per night for adults and 325 USD for children (including shared transfers).
2. Participate in a classic car race
The cars are more than 30 years old.
If you are passionate about games that require speed and endurance, here there is an East African Safari Rally.
The race will be held in November. You must have an international driver’s license to participate.
3. Nurture an elephant
Thousands of elephants are killed each year for their ivory, with demand mainly coming from Asia, especially China and Thailand.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Center in Nairobi rescues and rehabilitates orphaned elephants and rhinos to return them to the wild.
Visitors to the elephant camp can witness baby elephants playing around the mud room from 11 a.m. to noon.
The entrance fee is 500 KES (almost 6 USD).
4. Confession at the Hogwarts wizarding house in Africa
The `weird` world of Ol Malo.
According to Kenya Airlines’ in-flight magazine, Ol Malo is Kenya’s number one place to hang out.
Andrew, the youngest child of the owner of Francome Group, proposed to his wife here.
Ol Malo is located on the edge of the Laikipia plateau.
5. Organize a wedding like the Maasai
After 46 years of marriage, Roger and Laurie Moore decided to get married again in the Massai style.
After dressing in traditional clothes, having her face painted by the warriors, and placing grass in her shoes (symbolizing fodder), the bride is ready to be introduced to the groom, who is also prepared.
Attendees walk to celebrate from the bride’s village to the groom’s village.
A Maasai wedding complete with food and a week-long safari, lodging and travel will set you back around $20,000.
6. Join a cheese tour
Award-winning African cheese.
Kenya and cheese are two unnatural things that come to mind together.
Brown’s farming philosophy is based on `biodynamic and organic principles`.
An afternoon tour at the farm costs around 3,500 KES (40 USD) per person, including 3 glasses of wine or beer.
7. Attend the Rhino Charge race
It will be difficult to have road maintenance services here.
100 km2 of rough terrain, 10 hours duration, 13 checkpoints, a map, a 4WD vehicle and no fixed route, you have to reach many checkpoints by the shortest route
The event is organized in May or June, by charity organization The Rhino Ark Charitable Trust.
8. Snake hunt
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There are more than 100 species of snakes in Kenya, and Bio-ken staff will arrange tours to explore them in forests, riverbeds, rocky cliffs and mangroves.
Some of Kenya’s leading reptile experts will lead the trip, which aims to raise awareness and education about snakes and their role in the ecosystem.
9. Culinary entertainment
Attendees wear colorful shirts of their choice.
Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi serves the usual suspects, such as beef rump, lamb shank, chops, sausages, ribs, but also crocodile, ostrich and chicken liver and gizzards.
As long as you sit down, a meat slicer in a zebra apron and straw hat will bring the meat hanging on a Maasai sword to your table.
Carnivore is open daily for lunch and dinner.
10. Eat under the cave canopy
Ali Barbour cave restaurant in Diani.
Diners can count stars while sitting at the dining table 10 meters above the ground in the coral cave.
The restaurant serves international cuisine, but specializes in seafood.