Full Day Nairobi Tour

Safari Overview

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant and Rhino Orphanage.

The western end of Nairobi National Park 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.

During the hour-long open house, the elephant keepers bring their juvenile charges out to play for an hour between 11:00 and 12:00. After some ad hoc football games and mud baths, the elephants and their keepers come up to an informal rope barrier stretched along one side of the ‘playground’ from where you can easily take photos. Each keeper gives a short presentation to the visitors nearest to him, explaining how orphaned elephants need to be cared for. The youngest infants are assigned keepers for individual 24-hour guardianship, a responsibility that includes sleeping in their stables.

9:30 am: Pick up from your Hotel for the Sheldrick elephant orphanage trip

10:15 am: Arrive at the Daphne Sheldrick orphanage shelter

11:00 am: Start of the Public viewing of the baby elephants at the Nairobi Elephant Orphanage

Noon: End of the public viewing and lecture on baby elephants.

12:15 pm: Depart the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage and head to Nairobi National Park.

Day Trip Nairobi National Park

The Nairobi National Park Day tour is a half-day trip to see lions, rhinos, and buffaloes and to view the wildlife in this great park.

Nairobi National Park was established in 1942 as a place of recreation by the colonial settlers right next to the growing city.

Nairobi National Park’s main attractions include the rhinos, lions and leopards, and buffalo. There are however no elephants in the Nairobi national park due to its limited size compared to elephants’ need for a wide range of land.

12:40 pm: Enter Nairobi Park and start your game drive. Start with the Ivory burning monument and the savannah grasslands to see lions, gazelles

Visit the dry forest to look out for black rhinos leopards and birds.

Descend into river Mbagathi looking for crocodiles and hippos viewing Morkoyiet valley.

Return to the savannah to find white rhinos, buffalos, giraffes

2:00 pm: Exit the park and head to the giraffe center.

Giraffe Center

The Giraffe Centre in Nairobi is an amazing place to visit. It started as a rehabilitation project to rescue the Rothschild Giraffe. There were only 120 giraffes left on a ranch in Western Kenya when the Giraffe Center was founded.

The giraffe center provides you with pellets that you can feed the giraffes by hand. You can even give take photos while feeding the animals by your mouth and it seems like you are kissing the giraffe.

2:30 pm: Arrive at the Giraffe Centre located in the Karen suburbs. Start feeding the giraffes as you hug them and take pictures up close with these humble giants.

4.00 pm: The Giraffe Centre day tour ends with a drop-off at your hotel in the city.