Nairobi City Tour – Half day

• Kenya

Daily Private Tour
Saving the Animals at Giraffe Centre and the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage

Starting from/returning to Nairobi area hotels. We’ll pick you up from your hotel or from the airport at 8 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 here and offer a giraffe a food pellet. Not only may he (or she) accept your offering, you may be rewarded with a kiss! Such occurrences are not uncommon at the Giraffe Centre, a principal sanctuary for the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe.
Started in 1979, the Centre has been responsible for saving and breeding this beautiful subspecies of giraffe. Almost extinct, they are now thriving throughout Africa thanks to the heroic efforts of founders Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville. You can be part of this effort with your admission and your interest. At the Information Centre here, you can learn how the giraffes are cared for and ultimately released back into Kenya’s parks.
Be ready for plenty of fun company – the Centre is a favorite for Kenya’s schoolchildren who attend with their schools, delighting in the sight of the towering giraffes. At 0800am: You are picked up from your Nairobi hotel for a drive to the Giraffe manor
The giraffe center is a close up and learning tour while in Nairobi. Tour provides opportunity for personal interaction where you view giraffes with an option of feeding them.
The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W.) also known as the Giraffe Center owners are the idea behind this non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in1979. This successful idea was a noble endeavor to save the endangered Rothschild Giraffe which had lost its natural habitat to agriculture and human settlement
There were only 130 left in the wild. The giraffes were moved to Lake Nakuru National Park, Mwea Game Reserve, Ruma National Park and Nasalot Game Reserve. The Rothschild Giraffe population in Kenya has to date increased to more than 500. Later proceed to the David sheldrick elephant orphanage

Tour Highlights:

• The feeding platform at the Giraffe Centre
• Possible feeding and kiss from a giraffe