If in Nairobi, it's a must! Honestly an experience you will never forget. Baby elephants super close and they came to touch us. Also very educational and the kids love it!
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If in Nairobi, it's a must! Honestly an experience you will never forget. Baby elephants super close and they came to touch us. Also very educational and the kids love it!

It was interesting enough hearing about the individual baby elephants and fun watching them feed. It was however quite crowded probably due to the limited time available to watch the elephants. The queue to get in did move quickly but unless you are quite early...More

I spent feeding time at the Elephant Orphanage this morning and it's definitely worth the trip. Well organised and very informative on both the work of the Trust and each individual orphan and why they are under the care of DSWT. As I fostered Enkesha...More

Very very good but not unbelievable. The information was quite good but the introduction thin to all the individual elephants was a bit monotonous. You are standing pretty stationary for about an hour with not too much going on. Worth the visit but won't be...More

These guys do incredible work at the orphanage nursing baby elephants back to health and back to the wild eventually. You get to witness feeding/ Play/ eat/ wash/ dirt time and take as many pictures as you want. the elephants come right up to the...More

Visited our foster elephant, Milima. So much fun to watch the baby elephants play, but ore than that to see the care and love given these orphaned elephants was delightful.

The Daphne Sheldrake Elephant Orphanage is one of the best reasons to visit Nairobi. If you plan a safari in Kenya, you should make plans to include a visit to this orphanage to learn more about the challenges elephants in the wild face and to...More



Great view of elephants. You can touch them. Great pictures and a really good cause. You can visit several other venues in the area. This is really a morning feeding event.

It was too busy, full of families and you barely can hear the speaker. Baby elephants will be playing in front of you and you will be able to touch them only if you were lucky and were in the first rank ( I had...More

David Sheldrick Elephant orphanage is a must visit during the Nairobi trip. They are doing a wonderful job of adopting and caring for orphaned baby elephants. These baby elephants are orphaned due to various reasons such as poaching of elephants, animal stampede, death of old-aged...More












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