Nairobi Safari Walk
Raised wooden boardwalk through savannah, wetland and forest habitats beside a wild game park.
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The guide to Nairobi Safari Walk opens in July 1989, on a hillside just inside the park gate, where President Daniel arap Moi and warden Richard Leakey set fire to twelve tons of confiscated elephant ivory worth more than a million dollars. It follows how that burn reshaped Kenya's approach to protecting its wildlife and led, thirteen years later, to the Kenya Wildlife Service opening this raised boardwalk through savannah, wetland and forest just steps from the ash. Along the mile and a half of walkway you'll pass zebra, hippos, and a bongo, one of Africa's rarest antelopes. Pause at the quiet monument on the hillside before you start walking.
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