Nairobi National park and Elephant Orphanage Day Trip.

Visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's orphanage at Nairobi National Park to see baby elephants fed from bottles and playing together.
Visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant and rhino orphanage inside the western end of Nairobi National Park. See baby elephants being fed with milk from bottles and when they play with each other. Learn about the life histories of the animals and the work of the trust.

Start your day with a pickup from your hotel in Nairobi. Arrive at the Daphne Sheldrick orphanage shelter and meet the keepers who will give you a lecture of each of the elephants, explaining their names and their life histories on how they were orphaned.

Watch the baby elephants being fed with milk from bottles and when they play with each other. 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.

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. After the public viewing and lecture on baby elephants, return to your hotel in Nairobi.

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