Shai is a plain by topography but has outcrops of hills.The hills in the Shai area are based on several stone quarries. Its vegetation is a combination of open and wooded grassland, and fauna found there which include guinea fowls, antelopes, baboons, and francolins.[1] The mosaic forest which hosts zebras, antelopes, ostriches, and baboons among others.[2]
Shai Hills is served by a railway station on the eastern part of the national railway network, and is indeed a suburban terminus.[5] This has been their major source of transportation for a long time.