This Day Tour To David Sheldrick Elephants and Giraffe Centre is ideal for any traveler spending sometime in Nairobi. It is one of the Epic Places to Visit in Nairobi. You will start by visiting the David Sheldrick Elephant Sanctuary. Here they open strictly for only 1 hour between 11 am and 12 noon. The visit offers a wonderful opportunity to see the baby elephants being fed with milk from bottles and when they play with each other. The keepers will give you a lecture of each of them explaining their names and their life histories on how they were orphaned. It’s a great place to go and adopt a baby elephant. You will have a chance to interact with the young orphaned elephants and learn about their unique yet moving stories of how they got there, how they got their names and what plans are there to release them.
You will then be driven to the Giraffe Centre where you will learn more about the conversation efforts to conserve an endangered species and also get to feed them and take selfies with the Giant animals.
You will then be driven to the Beads factory. This is a pottery company that makes one of the world most beautiful beads. You will be shown all the stages from the start to the finish. It’s also a unique factory as it employs single mother parents from the poor neighborhood who earn a living to support their families.
You then have the option of being driven to lunch and then to your hotel. Upon request and at no extra transport cost to this Day Tour To David Sheldrick Elephants and Giraffe Centre, but you will pay entrance fee on your own, we are happy to drive you to The Karen Blixen Museum. A famous white settler story, depicted in the famous movie Out of Africa. You’ll learn the story of this amazing woman and how she changed the lives of the local people.
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Based on 2 pax | $95 |
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (Google Map)
In the morning
This Day Tour To David Sheldrick Elephants and Giraffe Centre is ideal for any traveler spending sometime in Nairobi.
Start your tour with pick up from your accommodation within Nairobi. The first stop is the David Sheldrick Elephant orphanage its strictly open between 11 am and 12 noon for only 1 hour. Here you will be able to mingle with rescued baby and teenage elephants and learn their unique yet moving stories of how they got there, how they got their names and what plans are there to release them
Duration: 1 hour(s)
Next Visit: Giraffe Centre
Afterwards you will be driven to the Giraffe centre where you will learn more about the conversation efforts to conserve an endangered species. You will also have the opportunity to get really close and feed them.You then have the option of being taken for lunch after which you can visit the Karen Blixen Museum and then transfer back to your hotel.
