City Park

This guide to City Park in Nairobi starts with a number that surprised even the botanists who counted it: hundreds of plant species packed into a small pocket of forest. It traces the park's start in 1921 as a colonial zoological garden, its long shrinking under land grabbers through the twentieth century, and the legal protection finally secured for what survived in 2009. Listen for Sykes monkeys moving through the canopy overhead as you walk the trails.