Day Tour

1 Day Karen Blixen Museum, Giraffe Centre and Kazuri Beads Tour

Duration

1 Day

Destinations

Karen, Nairobi

Accommodation

Not applicable, day trip

Meals

Not included, lunch can be arranged in Karen

Flights

Excluded

Overview

About this tour

Three stops within a few kilometres of each other, and three completely different experiences. You start at the Karen Blixen Museum, the farmhouse where Out of Africa was written, then move on to the Giraffe Centre and its raised platform, where the endangered Rothschild’s giraffes will take pellets straight from your hand.

The last stop is Kazuri Beads, a workshop that began in 1975 with two women and now employs several hundred, most of them single mothers, hand-rolling and hand-painting ceramic beads and pottery. You can follow the whole process from raw clay to finished jewellery and buy at the factory price. Literature, wildlife and a social enterprise that genuinely works, in a single day. All entrance fees, transfers, drinking water and a guide are included.

Day by day

Detailed itinerary

Your driver-guide collects you from your hotel and drives out to Karen. A guided tour of the farmhouse where Karen Blixen lived from 1917 to 1931 and wrote Out of Africa, kept with original furnishings alongside pieces used in the film, with gardens facing the Ngong Hills.

A short drive to the breeding herd of Rothschild’s giraffe. The raised platform brings you level with their heads and you can feed them by hand, while staff explain the release programme that has returned many of these animals to protected areas across Kenya.

Finish at the Kazuri workshop, founded in 1975 and now employing several hundred women, most of them single mothers. The guided walk covers the full process, from Mount Kenya clay through rolling, firing, hand-painting and glazing to finished jewellery and pottery. Time in the factory shop before you are driven back to your hotel.

What is covered

Inclusions and exclusions

Included

Transport in a safari vehicle with pop-up roof
Pick up and drop off at your Nairobi hotel
Services of a professional English-speaking guide / driver
All applicable entrance fees
Mineral Water
Statutory taxes

Not included

Personal Insurance
Items of personal nature
Alcoholic & Soft drinks
Meals unless stated as included
Optional activities
Gratuity for your driver guide
Visa to Kenya
Yellow Fever Vaccine

Before you go

Key information

Starting and ending point: Nairobi
English-speaking driver guide.
Entrance fees are included.
Hotel pick up and drop off within Nairobi included.
Transport in a safari vehicle with pop-up roof.
Departs daily, subject to availability. Private and group options available.

Good to Know

Good to know

Kazuri Beads workshop tours run on weekdays. Weekend visits are limited to the shop.
Lunch in Karen can be arranged at an extra cost. Please ask when booking.
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust can be added in the morning, but its public visit runs 11am to noon only.

Dietary requirement(s) are catered for upon Request