Paradise Lost Adventures

Paradise Lost Resort; Paradise Lost Resort is located on a 54-Acre Piece of Private Land 8 Kilometers from Nairobi, Kenya's Capital City off Kiambu Road. Paradise Lost Resort is the largest picnic site in Kenya.  It was towards the end of December 2011 that me and my work mates decided to pay this lavish place a tour.

This is the home of the 2.5 years Old Stone Age caves, trees thought to be hundreds of years old while the river reeds have a long story to tell. 

We Enjoyed the nature trails amid bird watching, horse riding, and camel riding, feeding Masai ostrich, fishing, coffee farms, and boat riding. We explored the Caves, Waterfall, Face Painting, Coffee Farm Tour, Free Camel Rides, Horse Rides, Fishing Fun Games plenty of laughter, Open Bar, Kuku & Nyama choma.  

Exploring the Caves 

 
This is a home to 2.5 million years old caves. Here we did some study on  bat and other nocturnal animals and birds. It was amazing how nocturnal animals were able to see without any natural light. 

Examples of nocturnal animals we managed to see includes; Bush Rat, Cricket, Hyena,Kangaroo, e.t.c

Catering and Camping 
 Paradise Lost Resort has food and accommodation on the grounds

We enjoyed the Kenyan delicacies... Kuku and Nyama Choma at the cafeteria.There is a bar that's serves drinks and several picnic sites for camping. Camping overnight charges are 600 Kenya Shillings per person per night and you get a tent, mattress, blanket, bone fire, and security. You get to carry your bedsheets.

Paradise Lost Resort is a very popular venue (particularly for Kenyans at weekends) and it's easyto see why... This large parkland has lots to offer including huge ancient caves you can enter hidden behind a waterfalls, a boating lake, ostrich's you can feed, pony and camel rides.
It's also possible to camp here although safety may be a concern.
Being just a short drive from Nairobi, it's a great place to visit for a day trip and the caves really are spectacular and well worth visiting no matter what your age. The history of the caves is interesting as the Mau Mau used to live in them during their resistance to British rule.
To enter them, you need to enter by a tunnel just about big enough to walk through for several metres.

Soon you come to a large cavern which is lit by electric lighting and from there you can see the network of tunnels and smaller caves linking to the main cavern. We advise taking a torch as the lighting is not 100% reliable and it's pitch dark inside the caves without artificial light. It's quite an amazing experience to think of the Mau Mau living there all those years in those dark damp conditions hiding from their enemy.