Saving the Animals at Giraffe Centre and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage – Nairobi City Tour – Half day

Starting from/returning to: Nairobi area hotels

We’ll pick you up from your hotel or from the airport at 8:00 AM. Your tour will be in the comfort of a private pop-top safari minivan.

Get ready to experience two of the most unique animal sanctuaries in the world. This half-day tour will bring you face to face with endangered Rothschild’s giraffes and orphaned baby elephants! What an incredible way to experience Nairobi’s unique animal parks.

Over the 5–6 hours of this morning tour, we’ll visit the Giraffe Centre, home to a tower of giraffes, and then onto the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. This is a wonderful adventure for visitors of all ages.

Giraffe Centre

Climb the feeding tower and offer a giraffe a food pellet. Not only may it accept your offering, but you might also receive a kiss! Such moments are not uncommon at the Giraffe Centre, a key sanctuary for the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe.

Started in 1979, the Centre has been instrumental in saving and breeding this beautiful subspecies of giraffe. Once near extinction, they are now thriving in Kenya thanks to the heroic efforts of founders Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville.

You can be part of this conservation effort with your visit. At the Information Centre, you’ll learn how giraffes are cared for and released into the wild. Expect to see Kenyan schoolchildren also enjoying the giraffes as part of their educational tours.

David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage

You’ll arrive in time for the daily feeding at 11:00 AM. Picture dozens of baby elephants running toward their handlers for their bottles — a heartwarming and unforgettable sight.

After feeding, it’s time for a bath! Right in front of you, the baby elephants roll in the mud, playfully splashing one another.

This world-renowned sanctuary cares for orphaned elephants rescued from drought, accidents, or poaching. The orphanage, the most successful of its kind, has saved over 200 elephants and rhinos. Over 100 of these animals have already been reintroduced into the wild.

A visit here could easily become the highlight of your African holiday and is sure to be a memory you’ll treasure forever.

Tour Highlights

• Feeding platform at the Giraffe Centre
• Possible feeding and kiss from a giraffe
• Viewing the baby elephants’ feeding session at the Sheldrick Orphanage
• Conservation talk and family-friendly interaction
• Half-day Nairobi city wildlife tour with Adventure In The Wild Safaris

Day Plan

Collection – 08:00 AM

You are picked up from your Nairobi hotel for a drive to the Giraffe Centre.

City Tour

This is a close-up wildlife experience and learning opportunity while in Nairobi. You’ll interact personally with giraffes and may feed them.

The Giraffe Centre is operated by The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W.), a non-profit organization founded in 1979 to save the Rothschild’s giraffe from extinction caused by habitat loss.

Only 130 Rothschild’s giraffes remained in the wild back then. Conservation efforts have successfully relocated them to parks like Lake Nakuru, Mwea Game Reserve, Ruma National Park, and Nasalot Game Reserve, increasing their population to over 500 today.

After the giraffe experience, proceed to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in a secluded area of Nairobi National Park.

This haven cares for orphaned elephants and other animals with the help of a dedicated team of conservationists. Open to the public just one hour daily, the orphanage was founded by Daphne Sheldrick, widow of the renowned naturalist David William Sheldrick, founding warden of Tsavo East National Park.

Drop Off

You will be returned to your Nairobi hotel in the early afternoon, full of unforgettable memories and inspired by the conservation efforts you’ve witnessed firsthand with Adventure In The Wild Safaris.