Nairobi National Park, Elephant Orphanage, Giraffe Center & Karen Blixen Museum

Nairobi is home to dozens of incredible sites and this full-day tour showcases some of the best of this East African city. Follow your expert guide and small group into the stunning landscapes of Nairobi National Park, where you’ll have the chance to see some of the nation’s most iconic animals in the wild. You’ll enjoy lunch in a local restaurant and then stop at the Karen Bixen Museum or Bomas of Kenya, where you’ll learn about the history, culture and traditions of Kenya’s diverse people. The tour ends with a visit to the Giraffe Center, where you’ll have a chance to learn about the endangered Rothschild giraffe and see how major conservation efforts are being made to protect this graceful animal.

Nairobi is home to dozens of incredible sites and this full-day tour showcases some of the best of this East African city. Follow your expert guide and small group into the stunning landscapes of Nairobi National Park, where you’ll have the chance to see some of the nation’s most iconic animals in the wild. You’ll enjoy lunch in a local restaurant and then stop at the Karen Bixen Museum or Bomas of Kenya, where you’ll learn about the history, culture and traditions of Kenya’s diverse people. The tour ends with a visit to the Giraffe Center, where you’ll have a chance to learn about the endangered Rothschild giraffe and see how major conservation efforts are being made to protect this graceful animal.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Nairobi National Park, Langata Road, Nairobi Kenya

Follow your expert guide and small group into the stunning landscapes of Nairobi National Park, where you’ll have the chance to see some of the nation’s most iconic animals in the wild.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Nairobi Kenya

The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust operates an orphan elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in Kenya,The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) Elephant Nursery in Nairobi National Park provides a safe haven to orphaned baby elephants rescued by the DSWT. The Nursery provides the first stage in the hand-rearing and development of milk dependent baby elephants. Once they graduate from the Nursery, aged 2-3 years, the elephants move to one of the DSWT’s Reintegration Centres in Tsavo East National Park, from where they will ultimately return to the wild.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Giraffe Centre, Duma Rd, Nairobi Kenya

The Giraffe Center is located in Lang’ata, approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the centre of Nairobi, Kenya. It was established in order to protect the endangered giraffe, that is found only in the grasslands of East Africa.

In 1979, the Giraffe Center, a nature sanctuary for visiting and including wildlife conservation education for urban school children, was started by Jock Leslie Melville, the Kenyan grandson of a Scottish Earl, when he and his wife Betty captured two baby giraffe to start a programme of breeding giraffe on their Langata property, site of the present Centre. Since then the programme has had huge success, resulting in the introduction of several breeding pairs of Rothschild Giraffe into Kenyan national parks.

By 1983 enough money had been raised to establish the Giraffe Visitor’s Center as a tourist destination just outside Nairobi.

The main attraction for both school children and visitors is feeding giraffes from a raised observation platform. The Giraffe Center is also home to several warthogs which freely roam the area along with the giraffes.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Karen Blixen Museum, Karen Rd Langata, Nairobi Kenya

This is the beautiful farmhouse where Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa, lived between 1914 and 1931, until she left Kenya after a series of personal tragedies.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Nairobi Mamba Village, Links Road Nyali, Nairobi Kenya

Mamba Village is famous for its Crocodile Farm. The pens are home to an estimated 70 Nile crocodiles. Four Maasai Ostriches can also be found strutting around their pen with grace. Visitors often come into direct personal contact with them when given the opportunity to feed these gallant birds. The experience is always satisfying and exciting especially for children.

Duration: 1 minute