Nairobi Full Day Trip: David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, & The Giraffe Center

Safari Overview

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant and rhino orphanage inside 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.

The trust was run for many years by Dame Daphne Sheldrick in memory of her husband David Sheldrick, the founding warden of Tsavo National Park. Dame Daphne died in 2018, but the hand-rearing methods and substitute elephant milk formula that she developed over many years of trial and error will outlive her and are now being replicated across Africa.

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.

Nairobi national park day tours is a half day trip to see lions, rhinos, buffaloes in the Nairobi national park and to view the wildlife in this great park.

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

Nairobi national park main attractions include the rhinos, lions and leopards and the buffalo. There are however no elephants in the nairobi national park due to its limited size compared to elephants need for wide range lands.

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 in a ranch in Western Kenya when the Giraffe Center was founded.

The giraffe centre provides you with pellets that you can feed the giraffes by hand with. You can even give take photos while feeding the animals by your mouth and it seems like you are kissing the giraffe. That is a priceless photo opportunity to miss.

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    Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Day Trip itinerary

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

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

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

    12:00pm: End of the public viewing and lecture on baby elephants.

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

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    Nairobi National Park Itinerary

    12:40pm: Enter the 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 and leopards and birds.

    Descend into river Mbagathi looking for crocodiles and hippos view morkoyiet valley.

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

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

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    Giraffe Center Day Tour Itinerary

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

    4.00pm: Giraffe centre day tour ends with a drop off in your hotel in the city.

Included in the Safari Cost
  • Arrival & Departure airport transfers complementary to all our clients.
  • Transportation as per itinerary.
  • Accommodation per itinerary or similar with a request to all our clients.
  • Meals as per itinerary B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner.
  • Services literate English driver/guide.
  • National park & game reserve entrance fees as per itinerary.
  • Excursions & activities as per itinerary with a request
  • Recommended Mineral Water while on safari.
Excluded in the Safari Cost
  • Visas and related costs.
  • Personal Taxes.
  • Drinks, tips, laundry, telephone calls and other items of a personal nature.
  • International flights.
  • Optional excursions and activities not listed in the itinerary like Balloon safari, Masai Village.
For more information:

Please contact us on email info@morningstarsafaris.com or phone +254 742 143 599