Giraffe Center & Elephant Orphanage Guided Day Tour: Up Close with Nairobi's Wildlife

Experience Nairobi’s wildlife up close on a guided day tour to the Giraffe Center and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. Get eye-level encounters with Rothschild Giraffes and see baby elephants being fed. Adopt a baby elephant and create lasting memories.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

The tour start by picking you from Nairobi Airport or your Nairobi Hotel. Proceed to the Giraffe Center, the headquarter for the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife made famous by “Daisy Rothschild”, a giraffe calf rescued from Soi, on the Western Kenya border. Daisy and her family form only a small part of a herd of these gentle giants, living in a semi wild state at Giraffe Manor. You will also learn their behaviours, traits and more conservation education. These animals will come to a protecting wall to be fed.

The next step is David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage - Tour Elephant Orphanage a walk through the little 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. When they’re done, there’s water to play with and keepers to nudge and get hugs from. While you get to watch them play and take photos. 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. It’s very cute to watch them hold their giant milk bottles in their trunks and close their eyes with joy as they make quick work of several gallons of milk.

You will then be dropped off back to the Airport or your Nairobi Hotel

What's Included
  • Nairobi Airport/hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Small Group Tour for a personalized experience
  • Private vehicle transportation
  • Elephant Orphanage admission included
  • Giraffe Center entrance fee covered
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Pay extra $45 per person for Nairobi National park which is mandatory to access elephant orphanage
Additional Information

Explore Nairobi City visiting the Giraffe Center and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage a must do activities in Nairobi. Get an outstanding experience getting up close and personal with Rothschild Giraffes at an eye level, seeing baby elephants at the elephant orphanage, see them feed the young baby elephants on bottled milk as you take selfies. You can adopt a baby elephant here. This is one of the most informative and moving short tours within Nairobi city.

  • To Pay an extra $45 per person for Nairobi National park which is mandatory if visiting elephant orphanage
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Sandra_w
Aug 21, 2024
Up close with elephants - Well organised tour that looked after us with information and allowing plenty of time to enjoy the experience. Highly recommended
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Pioneer299507
Jun 3, 2024
Giraffe and Elephants Tour - great day - Went on the Giraffe and Elephant tour. Stephen was our guide. He was brilliant. Lots of good knowledge and gave us some great tips to get the most out of the day
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Alexat341
Aug 17, 2023
Great day full of animals! - Great tour! A highlight of my time in Nairobi. The elephant orphanage, in particular, was excellent. We arrived everywhere plenty early, which meant we got great vantage points to see the animals. My guide, Wellington, was wonderful, and went above and beyond!
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Heather_d
Jul 17, 2023
Close and personal experience - Stephen our guide was great. The tours allow you to get closer to animals then normally possible. Be prepared to want to sponsor the elephants and help keep the sanctuary open. Money well spent.
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Michaelsm6005vg
May 6, 2023
Great Tour in Nairobi - We are grateful for choosing this tour, it was great idea, we cannot regret. We had a wonderful day exploring the giraffe centre, elephant orphanage and women’s bead factory. Our guide, Stephan, was fantastic! He was full of knowledge and had good tips, he was also a great photographer and offered to take photos for us using our phones! Wonderful day and money well spent! Would recomment all.
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P1399wnmikec
May 6, 2023
Fun Day Out in Nairobi - What a great fun day out to remember. We were picked up with consistent communication from our driver guide Wellington throughout the day. Taken straight past the queue in to see the giraffes then on to the elephants with enough time for a shop and a coffee. Bead factory was very relaxing and interesting too. Well worth the money. Will come back again
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Saviourh2023
May 1, 2023
Awesome Day in Nairobi - This was very interesting tour. This is a great way to see the elephants and giraffes easily and comfortably. There’s a lot to see at Nairobi and we could have used more time. Great experience with Wellington
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