Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Day Trip

Package 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. Without the love of a surrogate family and plenty of stimulation, orphaned baby elephants fail to thrive: they can succumb to fatal infections when teething, and, even if they survive, can grow up disturbed and unhappy and badly prepared for reintroduction to the wild.

Day wise Itinerary

• Day 1 : Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage Day Trip

  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 for your hotel.

  • Themes Jungle Safari

Inclusions

• Hotel
• 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 Breakfast, Lunch and 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.

Exclusions

• 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.

Package Start From

• Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Cost Of Safari

• The cost of this safari will vary depending on date of travel, type of accommodation, transport mode and number of people on the safari.

Terms & Conditions

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