Mountain Bike at Ngong Forest Sanctuary

How can I resist to bike at Ngong Forest Sanctuary? It has always been my plan to go to mountain bike once my children are old enough. Finally my dream came alive this past weekend:) Our daughter, Dilara is 8 yrs old, and luckily she is a very active girl! It is really hard to keep her at one place! So it was not to hard to make her say "yes" when we told her about our plans. Since her recent birthday gift was a mountain bike, we decided to make a use of it right away:)

I started my plan with getting a bike rack for our car last weekend! Pro-bike is to place to go when you need a bike equipment, they have everything you need. You can find Pro-bike in almost every mall such as Galleria and Sarit Center. Since our little one is still small, I got him a carrier which has been installed into my husband's bike. And off we go, we were ready to rock and roll!

If you live around Karen, you do not have to go all the way down to Karura Forest. Ngong Forest Sanctuary is conveniently located along Ngong Road, right next to the cemetery.  Forest is open until it is dark. Surprisingly, Ngong Forest covers 590 hectares of land, it is hard to tell from outside, but once you get in, you would know! Amazingly, 80% indigenous forest and the rest exotic Eucalyptus plantations, located within Ngong Road Forest Reserve. Compared with nearby forests, it is very rich in biodiversity and is home to over 120 bird species, over 35 mammals and numerous insects, reptiles, amphibians and fish.

Be prepared to company by the baboons, while we were biking they were jumping around us from one tree to another! We also saw baby aardvark and tree hyrax!

Due to the size of the forest and safety, forest rangers joined us with their bikes. Ranger live in Ngong Forest Sanctuary with their families. We biked together over an hour. It was a great experience, kids loved it. Our son was yelling from the back "fire" all the time! (means fast:)). Once we really got into forest, we noticed there are different paths, so definitely need a ranger, not a place to be adventurous ! You do not want to get lost! Rangers even gave their phone numbers to call them next time:) One of the ranger even remembered us from our Karura Forest trip, is not that nice?

So do not waste anytime, it is a great activity with kids, they can bike without any difficulty, I do recommend mountain bike though. The bike path is not very easy neither is too difficult, even our daughter was able to manage it (I have to admit, she fall few times though, but never gave up:))

http://www.ngongforest.org/index.php/general-info/about-ngong-forest