photo source: http://www.juggle.com/kenyaYou don't have to go right out into the bush to see wildlife in Kenya – the only tented camp in Nairobi national Park is right on the edge of the capital city.
I'm woken, in the steely light of predawn, by a soft voice at my tent flap, telling me tea is ready and there's hot water for shaving. There's a melodic dawn chorus – Narina Trogon, white-browed robin chat and emerald-spotted wood dove.
Tucked among a grove of fig, ebony and wild olive trees in the hilly west of Nairobi national park, the collection of eight enormous safari tents, mess tent and lounge tent that form the Nairobi Tented Camp, has a remote wilderness atmosphere that is as alluring as camps in the Masai Mara reserve that take hours to reach. Yet I am just four miles as the pied crow flies – and just half an hour's transfer – from the glass and steel, heat and noise of the city centre of the Kenyan capital. It wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility to come from the UK for the weekend. read on at source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/nov/04/tented-camp-safari-nairobi-kenya
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