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Nairobi National Park, Elephant & Giraffe Center Day Tour - 1 day
Start your day with a 6:30AM pickup from your Nairobi hotel. Head over to the Nairobi National Park, the most accessible of all of Kenya's parks. See the rhinos, lions, leopards, buffalo, and 450 species of birds as you tour.
Next stop is the world famous David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage from 11:00AM – 12:00PM to meet a herd of baby elephants and learn about the work done to rescue them from poachers. The orphanage successfully raises milk-dependent baby elephant and rhino orphans. During your hour there, the baby elephants will be brought out to play and feed as you watch them from behind a rope.
You will then be driven to the Giraffe Center to get up close and personal with Rothschild giraffes, Africa's tallest mammals. Here you will ascend up to an observation platform where you can meet giraffes at their eye level. Pet, stroke, scratch and feed them, and if you are brave you can even kiss them.
After the morning excitement, we visit Karen Blixen Coffee Garden for a delicious lunch of international standard. Relax in the shady garden and enjoy a selection of high-quality international cuisine.
After lunch you will be dropped off to your Nairobi Hotel.
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Tour Giraffe Center & Elephant Orphanage From Nairobi - 1 day
Your tour begins with a convenient pickup from your hotel in Nairobi.The first stop is the Giraffe Center, where you’ll learn about conservation efforts aimed at protecting these endangered giants. You’ll also have the chance to feed them and capture memorable selfies with these majestic creatures.
Next, you’ll visit the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, which is open exclusively between 11 a.m. and 12 noon. Here, you’ll meet adorable rescued baby and teenage elephants, hear their heartwarming stories, and discover how each one was named.
Afterward, you’ll head to the Kazuri Beads Factory, a renowned pottery workshop that produces some of the world’s finest handmade beads. You’ll be guided through the entire production process, from start to finish. This factory is particularly special because it empowers single mothers from underprivileged communities by providing them with sustainable employment to support their families.
Finally, you have the option to enjoy a relaxing lunch before being driven back to your hotel.
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Jozani Forest Tour - 1 day
Visit the Jozani forest and explore this natural part of Zanzibar, home to several habitats including swamp forest, evergreen thickets, mangroves, as well as a variety of wildlife, including sykes and red colobus monkeys, bush pigs, Ader’s duiker and suni antelopes, elephant shrews, chameleons and lots of birdlife.
The Jozani forest is best known for its kirks red colobus monkeys (kima punju in swahili), which are endemic to Zanzibar. About 10 years ago, the monkeys were considered to be in danger of extinction, but this trend has since reversed due to the conservation project. There are about 6000 red colobus monkeys now residing in Jozani Forest.
After visiting the monkeys, walk across to the Pete-Jozani mangrove boardwalk, which entwines through coral thicket vegetation, mangrove forests and across a creek. The mangrove forest is extremely crucial to Zanzibar’s ecosystems, providing a habitat for many lizards, snakes and birdlife as well as preventing the coastal erosion.
Jozani Forest is situated 38km southeast of Stone Town. In 1995, the Jozani Chwaka Bay Conservation Project was set up to protect the largest remaining patch of indigenous ground-water forest that used to cover Zanzibar. Local communities are involved in the project and some of your entrance fee contributes to development projects and to compensate local farmers whose crops are often damaged by the red colobus monkeys.
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Nairobi Half-Day Tour to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - 1 day
This tour starts by picking you from your hotel/home within Nairobi 9:30 am. We will drive you to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and have a walk through the little center from 11 am – 12 pm in an open space, with a rope fence around it. The youngest elephants come trotting out of the bush to greet their keepers who stand at the ready with giant bottles of milk. For the next 10–15 minutes you can watch each little one slurp and gargle their milk. When they're done, there's water to play with and keepers to nudge and get hugs from. While you get to watch them play and take photos. You find out how old they were when they arrived at the orphanage, where they were rescued from, and what got them into trouble. Once the youngest are all fed, they are led back into the bush, and it's the turn of the 2–3 year olds. Some of them can feed themselves, and some are still fed by their keepers. Watch them hold their giant milk bottles in their trunks and close their eyes with joy as they make quick work of several gallons of milk.
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