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Nairobi Mamba Village is situated an estimated 13 kilometres away from
Kenya's capital city - off the Lang'ata - Karen road. A wide range of
facilities are provided at the resort, located in a spacious and serene
environment accessible by a tarmac and all-weather road.
An array of leisure and outdoor activities are available to
visitors of Nairobi Mamba Village. These include recreational options
like a secluded picnic site, camel, horse, boat riding; adequate space
for garden parties, weddings, splendid photo/video shooting sessions,
superb scenery, conferences facility, children playgrounds, leisure
park, crocodile pens, ostrich park, bird watching trail, man-made lake,
restaurant, barbeque, longe, bar, bandas, art gallery, gift shop,
amphitheatre & a botanical garden replete with rare, exotic medicinal
plants and trees.
The main restaurant has a capacity of up to 300 guests at a
time alongside an 'island' buffet space overlooking the man-made lake,
which can seat another 120 patrons.
Notably, Nairobi Mamba Village has over recent months earned
emergent status as an important environmental education centre. School
groups i.e wildlife & science clubs from all parts of the country
regularly visit the Village to learn about crocodiles and ostrich birds
on several days every week.
By virtue of its extensive range of medicinal tree and plant
species found in its botanical garden - Nairobi Mamba Village boasts a
yet-to-be fully tapped potential, as a resource centre capable of
creating environmental awareness to a broad spectrum of people.
CROCODILE
PENS:
Nairobi Mamba Village - just as the name suggests, is the
home of Crocodiles in Kenya's capital city. The species found here is
the Nile Crocodile - which is one of the three species common in Africa
and the biggest as well. Also considered as man-eaters, the Nile
Crocodile can, and sometimes does easily snatch and devour human beings
at will. Any close encounter with the reptile is to be avoided at all
costs. The Nile Crocodile also known scientifically as Crocodylus
Niloticus - is on average a well known reptile, primarily owing to its
huge size.
It has four short, splayed legs; a long powerful tail; and a scaly hide
with rows of scales (known as ossified scutes) running down the back to
end of its tail. It's mighty jaws are regarded as its greatest asset and
weapon. The nostrils, eyes and ears are also located on the top of their
heads - the reason why the reptile is able to conceal the rest of its
body underwater.
Juvenile crocodiles are grey, dark olive or brown - though
the cross-bands on their tail and body are darker. And as they mature -
their hide gets darker as the cross-bands fade away. The colour of the
Crocodile's skin makes it easy for the reptile to lay in wait patiently
for unsuspecting prey. At the Nairobi Mamba Village, the existing pens
are flanked by grayish rocks and sand beds where the Croc's bask -
within a richly vegetated background meant to mimic their wild and
natural habitat.
OSTRICH
PARK:
Amazing integration of nature and man activities with an
opportunity to see savannah ostrich in an extensive area and yet get
close enough to feed them from your hand. All this is experienced in the
Mamba village ostrich park.
Ostriches are flightless birds, regarded as the world's largest and
heaviest birds. Their scientific name Struthio camelus is derived
from the Greek word "camel sparrow". In local Kiswahili dialect they are
referred to commonly as "mbuni".
Ostriches can be found in especially Africa - although almost
all zoos world wide must have the bird within their pens. The birds also
considered to be powerful runners - have long, sturdy legs though each
has only two toes.
At the ostrich park in Nairobi Mamba Village, the sanctuary
provides an amazing integration of nature and activities. Visitors have
an opportunity to see a graceful savannah ostrich within its natural
environment and also get up close enough to feed them from one's hand.
LEISURE
PARK:
The mamba village leisure park provides a great location for
relaxation. Outdoor activities such as garden weddings, graduation
ceremonies, concerts self structured games and funfairs can be held
here.
A soon-to-be-inaugurated Leisure Park covering about 10 acres
is currently under creation. Upon completion, it is expected to
transform Nairobi Mamba Village into an environmental conservation
centre and a botanical garden of a kind in East Africa with more than 90
medicinal trees already planted in the grounds.
The resort’s
proprietor,
Harun Muturi notes that the same concentration of indigenous medicinal
plants and exotic trees cannot be found anywhere else in Nairobi on a
single location. In the long term. the leisure park is intended to offer
an ideal location for relaxation, outdoor activities such as garden
weddings, graduation ceremonies, live music concerts, self structured
games and funfairs among other activities, which require expansive space
When complete the leisure park will have features such as:
• Large open lawns
• Amphitheater
• Medicinal arboretum
• Palm garden
• Mini-Golf
• Water garden
Source: Official web of
Nairobi Mamba Village
(2009)
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