Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage was started in inside Nairobi national park by Dame Daphne Sheldrick as a rescue centre for young elephants abandoned by their mothers through poaching or falling into human settlement water wells.
Visits to the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage are mainly done privately or organized through Nairobi travel agents.
The lead caretaker will take you through each and every baby elephant’s life history and the circumstances under which they were abandoned in the wild. Some of these stories are heart wrenching like one that was abandoned and had had her trunk and tail chewed off by hyenas before she could be rescued by the Wildlife service.
You will learn a lot about the challenges of wildlife conservation from this talk and see the magnitude of the problem by the ever increasing numbers of orphaned babies. And these are the few that they can reach in time.
The public lecture at the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage is strictly for 1 hour as they try to minimize the interruption on the animals’ daily routine by these displays.
0930 Hours: Sheldrick elephant orphanage day tour departs from your hotel with a pick up by our driver.
1030 Hours: Arrival at the Sheldrick elephant orphanage and pay entrance fees while proceeding to the staging area.
1100 Hours: The Sheldrick elephant orphanage public lecture starts with the more than 20 baby elephants being fed on milk from plastic bottles. The baby elephants will also play around the waterholes and with a ball as you touch them along the rope line.
1200 Hours: Departure from Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage for your hotel. You have an option to combine this tour with nearby attractions including the Kazuri beads factory, Kitengela glass, Karen Blixen Museum , Giraffe Centre, Nairobi national park, Nairobi safari walk, Carnivore restaurant, Bomas of Kenya, Matt bronze gallery, Utamaduni souvenir shop among others. You will be dropped at your hotel at 1300 Hours after the tour. End of trip
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