Parks & Play
Oloolua Nature Trail
Karen, Nairobi
Open daily
Oloolua is a pocket of dense indigenous forest behind Karen, a very different feel from the open grassland of the national park. The trail winds past a small waterfall, a 30-metre cave used during the Mau Mau years, a bamboo grove, a papyrus swamp and river paths, with Sykes' monkeys overhead most of the way. Picnic glades and a campsite make it easy to stretch a walk into a whole morning.
Good to know: The full loop takes two to four hours — shorter out-and-back walks to the waterfall suit younger legs.
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