Start from 35 curated places around Nairobi, KE, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Carnivore Restaurant
Nairobi's most famous meat feast, an all-you-can-eat affair where carvers bring skewers of grilled meats, from beef and pork to ostrich, table to table until you lower the surrender flag. Touristy by reputation, but a genuine Nairobi institution and a fun night.
Ranalo Foods
Known to everyone as K'Osewe, a CBD institution for authentic Kenyan and Luo cooking, above all whole fried tilapia with ugali and traditional greens. Fast, generous, and packed with downtown workers at lunch, it is where locals actually eat.
Trails & outdoors
Karura Forest
A vast urban forest reserve threaded with walking, running, and cycling trails to a waterfall, river caves, and Mau Mau hideouts, all minutes from the city center. The green lung of Nairobi and the easiest real nature escape in the city.
Ngong Hills
A row of grassy summits on the city's southwest edge, walked along a breezy ridge with the Rift Valley falling away on one side and the plains toward Nairobi on the other, wind turbines spinning above. The classic proper hike near the city.
Things to do
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A celebrated elephant and rhino orphanage on the edge of Nairobi National Park, where rescued baby elephants are bottle-fed and mud-bathed during a single public hour each day. One of the most moving and joyful wildlife experiences in the city.
Giraffe Centre
A conservation center in Karen where you hand-feed endangered Rothschild's giraffes from a raised wooden platform, eye to eye with their long blue tongues. A simple, delightful, family-friendly encounter and an easy pairing with the elephant orphanage.
Landmarks & sights
Nairobi National Park
The only national park on earth inside a capital city, where lions, rhinos, giraffes, and zebra roam open savanna with the office towers on the skyline behind them. A genuine Big-Game game drive a short ride from downtown.
Karen Blixen Museum
The farmhouse of the 'Out of Africa' author at the foot of the Ngong Hills, preserved with her furniture and the coffee-farm grounds that frame her story. A peaceful, leafy stop that brings the book and film to life.