Hell's Gate National Park & Lake Naivasha: Bike and Boat Adventure

from $165

Duration

8 hours

Type

Guided

Difficulty

Easy

Nairobi City Guided Tour and Afternoon Visit to Bomas of Kenya

Experience the country’s famous rural landscape on this full-day safari tour to Hell’s Gate National Park and Lake Naivasha. Zip around by bike to see zebras, gazelle, and more, then embark on a guided hike for a more intimate glimpse of the flora and fauna. Return transfer from your Nairobi hotel ensures a seamless trip, plus park fees and cycle hire comes included in the price.

hells gate included, this stress-free tour provides the opportunity to explore by bike and foot the unique landscapes, cliffs formations, geology, while gaining insight into the region’s history from personal local guide. Hell's gate sets itself apart from all other parks as the only park one can bike, and even walk freely in the midst of beautiful wildlife including zebra, giraffes, antelopes, warthogs, gazelles among others. One is also accorded a glimpse of the unique Gorge located inside the park.

Inclusions

pick up and drop off
Professional guide
Bottle drinking water
Hell's Gate Park entrance fee

Exclusions

Tips
Lunch (available for purchase)
Boat ride at Lake Naivasha USD25 per person

Tour Plan

You will start your day with a pickup from your hotel within Nairobi with our professional guide/driver and start the drive to the Nairobi National Museum. The Nairobi National Museum was founded in 1920, and established at its present location in 1929. Want to learn about the country’s history, it’s people, culture and art then this is a place you can start with. The Museum aims to interpret Kenya’s rich heritage and offers a one stop for visitors to sample the country’s rich heritage both for education and leisure. It is open on all 356 days throughout the year

leave the museum and start the drive to City centre where we will find a parking and start the walk to the August Memorial park. The August 7th Memorial Park is located at the 1998 Bomb blast scene along Haile Selassie Avenue. It is dedicated to those who lost their lives and contains a notice board listing their names. This will take like an hour

Then we will drive to the Kenyatta International Convention Centre which is internationally renowned venue for conferences, meetings, exhibitions and special events and among the tallest buildings in Nairobi. You can go to the rooftop and enjoy a marvelous and exclusive view of the city. This will take an hour. After this you will have about an hour for lunch(own expense)

After Lunch drive to Bomas of Kenya which offers Kenya in miniature! It is a must visit to all visitors. Situated 10km from Nairobi city center, and about 1 km past main entrance of the game-filled Nairobi National Park, Bomas of Kenya lets you see the wonderful diversity of cultures that make up this fascinating country. At Bomas different aspects of Kenyan culture are displayed including living styles, crafts, music and dancing. The word Bomas was derived from “Boma”-a Swahili word for enclosed homestead and there are now many different “Bomas”, each one representing one of Kenya’s major ethnic groups. You, cannot afford to miss the most exciting traditional dances and acrobatic show which starts at 2.30pm to 4.00pm during A weekdays and 3.30pm to 5.15pm weekends and public Later drop off to your preferred location. End of Tour.

Itinerary

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Step 1

Depart your Nairobi Hotel and drive to the Hells Gate National Park with stops at view points 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 biking tour 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. See the view of gorges, capture beautiful panoramas of the gorge's small thin depressions of land mass from outside. then head to Lake Naivasha.

Step 2

Then at 1pm have Lunch (own expense-available for purchase) . At 2pm, enjoy a relaxing boat ride on Lake Naivasha (for option selected )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.