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6 hours
Daily Tour
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chinese, English, Francais, spanish
“You are feeding a giraffe from a wooden platform. It is very close. Its tongue is extremely long and extremely purple. Behind it, across the fence, the Nairobi skyline rises above the acacia trees. Somewhere in this city, 4.5 million people are going about their Tuesday morning. You are feeding a Rothschild’s giraffe. Kenya starts here.”
No other capital city on Earth has a national park on its edge where lions live. Nairobi National Park is not a zoo, not a conservancy, and not a wildlife centre — it is a full national park with free-roaming predators, where the morning game drive from the park entrance takes you through grassland and acacia woodland while the Nairobi CBD sits on the horizon.
Combine it with a visit to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust — the world’s most famous elephant orphanage — and the Giraffe Centre at Langata, and you have a half-day that shows more wildlife than most people see in a week anywhere else in the world. This is also the ideal first experience for guests arriving in Nairobi before a longer safari.
The Nairobi half-day tour has the highest delight-per-hour ratio of anything in our catalogue. Baby elephants being bottle-fed at the orphanage reduces grown adults to tears on a reliable basis. Feeding a Rothschild’s giraffe from 30 centimetres makes children (and adults) completely incapable of describing the experience without their voice doing something unusual. This is the tour that convinces undecided partners that yes, Africa is a good idea.
👨👩👧 Family (all ages) 🌿 Senior ♿ Accessible
Private or small group
Nairobi National Park was established in 1946 and covers 117 square kilometres immediately south of Nairobi’s CBD. It is the world’s only national park within a capital city boundary. The park’s southern border is unfenced, allowing wildlife to migrate seasonally to and from the Athi-Kapiti plains. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s elephant orphanage at Nairobi National Park has rescued and reintegrated over 280 orphaned elephants since its establishment by Dame Daphne Sheldrick in 1977. The Giraffe Centre maintains a breeding population of endangered Rothschild’s giraffe — one of Africa’s rarest subspecies with fewer than 800 individuals remaining.
You will be picked up in the early morning at around 6 AM (flexible timings) and driven to Nairobi National Park. Here you’ll be on the lookout for wildlife including buffalo, zebra, giraffe, ostrich, hyena and of course the big cats.
Leave the park at 10.30AM and head to the elephant orphanage to delight in the most adorable creatures feeding from giant baby bottles (This needs to be booked well in advance)
Depart the orphanage at 12.20PM and head for lunch at the famous Carnivore Restaurant or Galleria mall at own cost.
The afternoon promises more excitement and at around 2PM, we drop in at the Giraffe Center, home of endangered Rothschild’s Giraffes. On these stately grounds you can get up close and even feed these amazing creatures.
Later at around 5PM, be dropped at your hotel or at the airport.
Please note that the elephant orphanage requires advance booking. It might be substituted if unavailable.
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