Nairobi

If you stay in Nairobi and you like to eat meet, ask for the restaurant "Carnivore". Pay once and eat meat as much as you can.

that´s why we also call it Nairobberi

If you are doing a stopover at the Nairobi airport, make sure you carry your valuables with you. Bury deeply anything that you can't take on the plane. I got my leatherman stolen from there, and I had wrapped it in a shirt before putting it in my backpack but someone still found it!

Nairobi is a good hub flying into East Africa and probably your cheapest option on airfare.

The Flame tree restaurant is great to meet other travelers also visit Karen Blixons house.

A worthwhile day trip item is to see Daphne Sheldrick's elephant orphans.. out near the Nairobi Game Park.

Travel with others, with an interpreter if possible

Get ready to take a lot of pictures of the beautiful animals

Superfly, make sure you spend some time in downtown Nairobi....it won't work but you can earnestly try to get a sense of urban Africa....  Very big bags of Smith's Chipsticks (salt and vinegar) are available and are good....as are the very beefy sausagerolls. Wimpy bars abound for nostaligic Britons (though there are apparently still 300 of these in the UK).  A marvellous bustling place by day, everybody seemed very friendly...but do be cautious at night.  And try not to attract hangers-on that are simply trying to sell you a safari that you don't want.  If I wanted to see animals I would go to a zoo....I came to Kenya to check out Nairobi, now beat it! 

dont trust the people who take your bags out, they pick pocketed me.