Day Hiking Ngong Hills

General information

Destination
Nairobi, Kenya

Program details

This half-day tour visits to Ngong Hills Forest which is located in the Northern tip of Kajiado County and its 25 kilometers from Nairobi City.



The vegetation of Ngong hills forest includes exotic and indigenous tress for example pine, cypress(Exotic) sandal wood, Acacia, croton (Indigenous) mainly determined by altitude, soils type and human utilization of the land.

Grazing, forest fires also determine the spatial variation in vegetation cover.



The forest is known to host a variety of animals which includes: buffaloes, wild pigs, porcupine, and dik-diks.

These animals are residents of the forest and their movement is usually determined by factors such as drought, water availability and forage availability.