Elephant Orphanage & Giraffe Centre Tour

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Duration:6 hours (approx.)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

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Spend the day visiting David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage to observe baby and young orphaned elephants: viewing is strictly between 11am and 12pm. you'll visit the Giraffe Center to experience a supervised feeding session.

NB: On Christmas Day 25th December - David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage will be closed for Holiday, we will offer alternative

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1. Giraffe Centre
The tour starts by picking you from your Hotel/Home within Nairobi. You will be driven to Giraffe centre where you feed Rothschild giraffes under the supervision of keepers. The center has rescued, hand-reared and released around 500 orphaned giraffes back into the wild since opening in 1979. This attraction offers opportunities to feed the endangered Rothschild's giraffe by hand. The location also offers a fine education on the physiology, behaviors and habitat preferences of these beautiful animals.
2. Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
You will then be driven to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to walk through the center from 11am - 12pm in an open space, with a rope fence around it. The youngest elephants come trotting out of the bush to greet their keepers who stand at the ready with giant bottles of milk. For the next 10-15 minutes you can watch each little one slurp and gargle their milk. Then, you'll have time to watch the elephants play. You find out how old they were when they arrived at the orphanage, where they were rescued from, and what got them into trouble. The most common reasons for getting orphaned being: mother's poached, falling into wells, and human/wildlife conflict. Once the youngest are all fed, they are led back into the bush, and it's the turn of the 2-3 year olds. Some of them can feed themselves, and some are still fed by their keepers. Watch them interact with their keepers, munch on some branches of their favorite acacias, and play with the half drums of water and mud
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The next stop visit Kazuri Bead Factory/Kobe 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. This pottery, ceramic and bead factory employs all single mothers to make its beautiful gifts and souvenirs - which are now exported all around the world. There is a gift shop which stocks some of their wares. Please note that the workshop is closed Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday, however the gift shop is open 7 days.

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Posted By : Desislava_D
It was a great experience! Loved the feeding of the orphaned elephant part and the possibility for an elephant adoption.
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Posted On : 2024-05-28 12:54:38

Posted By : Lindsay_T
This was such a fun tour with Stephen!
Perfect way to kick off my trip in Kenya. Stephen picked me up from my lodging and the first stop was the Elephant Sanctuary. He walked me to the perfect viewing spot for photos. Then we went to the giraffe center! I was traveling by myself, but Stephen made sure to get all the photos for me! Lastly we stopped at a local bead factory where I bought some souvenirs. Great day, thanks Stephen!
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Posted On : 2024-05-22 06:21:02

Posted By : wigguno
This tour was really great, and well worth getting up early for. Our guide Steven got us there promptly to avoid all the crowds and queues. He even told us where to stand to get the best pictures. Highly recomended.
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Posted On : 2024-05-14 08:14:51

Posted By : jason_p
This was the adventure of a lifetime. You can hand fees the giraffes and pet the elephants. They have a 1 year old baby black rhino at the orphanage as well. It is a must do!!! My tour guide Stephen was very nice, knowledgeable and professional!!!
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Posted On : 2024-05-02 02:46:58

Posted By : william_g
Fantastic experience with a great guide who was friendly, informative, went out his way to make sure we had a good time. Would recommend anytime!!
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Posted On : 2024-05-02 00:07:53

Posted By : Terri_B
Would have been ok if we had gone, but due to flights cancellation we were unable to go. We did request a day change, but Viator could or would not change it, no refund or credit offered.
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Posted On : 2024-04-22 10:07:30

Posted By : noellew941
A great trip!! Titus was fantastic. Would recommend for a half day excursion. The bead factory added a nice experience too.
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Posted On : 2024-04-18 08:56:13

Posted By : David_F
Our Guide Stephen was great and showed us where to stand to get the best photos and avoid the worst mud. He also took us to the giraffe park early so we were the only ones with the animals for a while and that made it very special. We also had a guide and learned all about the giraffes and got to see them up close. Overall the giraffe experience was much better then the elephants but both were amazing. The elephant orphanage also had a baby rhino which was a bonus as he was so adorable.

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Posted On : 2024-04-15 09:40:58

Posted By : Cora_S
Best affordable experience. I enjoyed the activities that this package offers. White glove customer care and professionalism. I’m traveling alone and I was taken care by the driver. I recommend them.
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Posted On : 2024-03-27 12:06:10

Posted By : Bhavin_S
In general, there are much better ways to spend $140 in Nairobi. I'm 100% sure why they wouldn't just make the list price of this experience $140 instead of making it $95 and saying in smaller font that you'll have to pay an extra $45. Seems like disingenuous marketing to me.

Giraffe Centre was fine for like 15 mins. It's cute to feed the giraffes and get your pics but the tour definitely doesn't need to dedicate an hour to this stop. Elephant Orphanage was cute - but also definitely didn't need to be an hour - it's basically them trotting out cute baby elephants and telling their sob stories for 60 minutes. Bead factory was surprisingly cool - very neat seeing how the items were made.
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Posted On : 2024-03-18 05:57:19