Archive for month: March, 2018

Are you a birding enthusiast or are keen to learn about birds? This will be a perfect, and peaceful day with Nature and Animals, inside a City!

Nairobi National park, the only one of its kind, 7Kms from the city centre, nestled in wide open grass land plains, against the backdrop of city sky scrapers and scattered Acacia bush land play host to an abundance of wild life, flora and Fauna. We shall spend the full day on game drives across this small park, about 117km2. We shall be keeping an eye for the big game and birds.

Our main focus for the day will be birding. Expected birds species include:

Secretarybird, African Water Rail, Spotted Thick-knee, Kori Bustard, Hartlaub’s Bustard, Saddle-billed Stork, Ruppell’s Robin-chat, Northern Pied Babbler, White-tailed Lark, Rufous-naped Lark, Somali Short-toed Lark, Red-throated Tit, Speke’s Weaver, Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Martial Eagle, African Crowned Eagle, Wahlberg’s Eagle, African Quail-finch, Zebra Waxbill, Harlequin Quail, Lappet-faced Vulture, Croaking Cisticola and Desert Cisticola.

Mammals to expect include: the African Lion, Leopard, Cape Buffalo, Common Warthog, Common Zebra, Common Impala, Thompson’s Gazelle and Black Rhino.

Join us for a serene peaceful day with nature

We will leave from the museum in Tourist Mini Van, accompanied by a very well read and an expert in Birding and Nature Guide.

Departure: 6 am, from the Nairobi Museum, KMS Office, hoping to arrive early at the gate, complete formalities and enter the park as early as possible. We plan on leaving the park around 3 pm.

CHARGES

Ksh 2,850/- per person

Included: Transport and guide fees

Excluded: park entry fees

Bookings: 0724 255 299 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

Guided Tour of Olorgesailie Pre-Historic Site

Saturday 23 June 2018

This will be a tour that will combine birding and pre-history.

Located along Magadi road, about 1.30 hour drive from Nairobi, the Olorgesailie pre-historic site is about 70 km from Nairobi.

The site is world renowned as a factory of “ Stone Tools”  with the largest number of tools to show and it offers an exceptional opportunity for reconstruction of conditions of life during the early part of the Stone Age.The prominence and accumulation of human tools represents actual camping places of early men and evidence that human species had a tropical origin.

The site is in a lake basin that existed about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago and has excellently preserved the biological and cultural evidence about the evolution of man.

At the museum, we shall enjoy learning about the pre-history discoveries made at this site, the museum collection of artefacts, guided by the sites curator

The site is also a bird watchers paradise citing the highest number of migratory bird species in Kenya. We shall bird on the way and at the Museums surroundings. Expected birds species include: African Grey Hornbill, Verreaux’s Eagle, Yellow-spotted Petronia, Red-fronted Barbet, Hildebrandt’s Starling, Tawny Eagle, Eastern Chanting Goshawk, Brown Snake-Eagle, Blue-naped Mousebird, Green-winged Pytilia, Grey Wren Warbler, Rattling Cisticola, White-bellied Canary, Red and Yellow Barbet and Rufous Chatterer.

KMS Member   – Ksh 3,000

Guest               – Ksh 3.550 (Excluding entry fee to the Prehistoric site)

Included   – Transport, guided tour and water.

Excluded   – Lunch and other personal expenses.

Payment: Safaricom, Mpesa, Paybill, Business No 400800, Account number 6571570019.

Bring a Hat, extra drinking water, binoculars and wear good walking shoes.

Note: Please carry your KMS membership card, you can renew it at the KMS office

Suitable for children over 10 years.

We look forward to this exciting day out and hope many of you will join us.

Closing date for registration 21^st June 2018

 Bookings: 0724 255 299 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org